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‘In or Out’: Why Heidi Klum Makes Me Nervous
While the sixth season of the fashion reality show “Project Runway” is fast-approaching its climax, it’s become a running joke in my house that the show’s host, German supermodel Heidi Klum, would have made a good Nazi. Every time she announces to the panel of quaking designers, in her German accent, “One of you will…
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Ethiopian Jewish Festival of Sig’d Goes Mainstream
Of the various immigrant groups in Israel, it’s clear that Ethiopians have it especially tough. There is widespread poverty in the Ethiopian community and the country has not overcome the fact that the educational level of immigrants on arrival was largely lower than that of immigrants from other backgrounds. Still today, the educational standard is…
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Playing with Playmobil: Fun With Pharaoh
I love the shopping circulars that come with the Sunday Times (which really arrives on Saturday). I’m a big browser – and not the Internet Explorer kind. Well, I browse online too. But back to one of the few remaining circulars that arrive in the print newspaper. In this weekend’s paper arrived the Toys R…
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Barring Bar Refaeli’s Body: Boon or Bane?
There are only two people whose gargantuan faces greet drivers along Tel Aviv’s Ayalon highway. One is the larger-than-life-even-in-death Lubavicher Rebbe. The other is Bar Refaeli, possibly the most recognized Israeli face (and body) among American adult males. Both billboards – and the glaring absence of any others – are indicative of the frightening and…
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Jewish Playmates, Jewish Gospel and a Jewish President
Big Brother Rabin: From her home on Kibbutz Manara in the Galilee, Yitzhak Rabin’s sister, Rachel, recalls in Haaretz the siblings’ Tel Aviv upbringing, the children of a “tempestuous revolutionary” mother, during the 1920s and 1930s. Ask the Experts: Nishmat, an organization that certifies female advisors on Jewish law, or yo’atzot halacha, recently lifted the…
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Throwing Harvey Pekar Into a Valley
Smith — the online magazine that brought you the six word story — now brings you the 90-headed Harvey Pekar beast. To celebrate Harvey Pekar’s 70th birthday, their “Pekar Project” was to ask a number of artists to draw his head at 70 as a surprise present. Originally there were 70, natch, but so many…
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On Yelling — and Trying To Channel Claire Huxtable
I read this recent New York Times piece called “Shouting is the New Spanking” on yelling with great interest, because I have been known to yell at my family members. Okay, family members, you can stop laughing now. I haven’t been “known” to yell, rather I could be described as “a yeller.” It feels a…
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Watch the Exchange Between Yoffie and Ben-Ami
In case you missed the exchange between J Street executive director Jeremy Ben-Ami and Union for Reform Judaism president Eric Yoffie — moderated by Forward editor Jane Eisner — at the recently wrapped J Street conference, you can watch it in its entirety here: Other videos of conference sessions can be viewed here.
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At the Trump-Kushner Wedding, the Rabbi Sang in ‘Aromatic’
Barbara Walters, who attended the Trump-Kushner nuptials, discusses the Hebrew lettering on the couple’s wedding invitation and officiant Rabbi Haskel Lookstein’s “aromatic” — she means Aramaic — singing, under the chuppah:
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Musings on ‘Jewish Hair’
The buzz about “Good Hair,” Chris Rock’s new documentary about black hair, has got me thinking about “Jewish hair”: what it is, what it means, and where I — a straight-haired woman — fit into this curious piece of Jewish identity. “Jewish hair” is a tricky thing to define, since Judaism can include people from…
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And the Rat Sang: Nava Semel’s Opera To Open in Canada
Nava Semel comes from a musical family. Her brother, Shlomo Artzi, is one of Israel’s most famous singers. She, however, is a novelist whose 2001 book “And the Rat Laughed” (“Tzchok shel achbarosh”) has yet to find an American publisher but has indeed found a North American venue for it — Toronto’s Opera York. The…
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