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Controversy Surrounds ‘Seven Jewish Children’
The New York Theatre Workshop will stage three readings of the British playwright Caryl Churchill’s 10-minute play, “Seven Jewish Children” — a quickly written response to the recent Israeli incursion into Gaza. When the play debuted in February at London’s famous Royal Court Theatre, it had some critics swooning; it has others up in arms….
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For Madoff Victims, Tax Breaks and Osso Buco
The Department of Justice released Bernard Madoff’s mug shot this week, following his guilty plea to 11 charges related to his multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme. Now living at the Metropolitan Correction Center in Lower Manhattan, the disgraced financier wears a conservative blue-and-white striped shirt and, at least in the mug shot, a grim expression. “After scamming…
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Etgar Keret on Becoming a ‘World Champion’ Writer
This week at Manhattan’s Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, writer and director Etgar Keret appeared before the book group of Dor Chadash, an organization that brings together Israeli and American Jews. Much like his stories, Keret, the author of “The Girl on the Fridge” and “Missing Kissinger,” among other books, was incredibly approachable and exciting. In…
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Help! My Adult Daughter’s a Schnorrer
Dear Mr. Zaslow: I raised three daughters in a nice middle-class, haimish home. My youngest daugher is a real schnorrer — a cheapskate. She flaunts her frugality. Her home furnishings are “dumpster décor,” and sometimes, she’ll go to Costco and eat her lunch by sampling food served by the various demonstrators. Recently she told me,…
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Madoff Scheme Brings to Light Jewish Artifacts
Since Bernard Madoff’s December arrest, victims of his Ponzi scheme have been selling off not only their real estate and their jewelry, but also their Judaica, according to a New York-based auctioneer. Jonathan Greenstein, whose eponymous company auctions off “rare antique and artisan Judaica” told The New York Post’s Page Six that Jewish artifacts that…
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Dead Kennedys an Odd Choice for the American Jewish Committee
The 1980s anti-establishment punk band The Dead Kennedys may have won a handful of friends in the Jewish community with their single, “Nazi Punks, F— Off!” but the last place one would expect the band to turn up is in a video from the American Jewish Committee. Any links between the AJCommittee and the band…
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Did Madoff Wear a Yarmulke to Court?
In this courtroom sketch of Bernard Madoff, the admitted Ponzi schemer appears to be wearing a white yarmulke (and davening). Rest assured, neither is true. The sketch shows him reading the following statement before Judge Denny Chin of U.S. District Court: Madoff’s Statement to the Court Your Honor, for many years up until my arrest…
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Thanking Mr. Madoff
As the world focuses on the misdeeds of Bernard Madoff, who pleaded guilty Thursday to operating a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, at least one person — granted, not one of his defrauded investors — is singing his praises. Writing on The Big Money, Chadwick Matlin has gone so far as to pen an open letter of…
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Madoff: The Most Unpopular Prisoner
If Bernard Madoff thought that jail would at least provide a break from confronting angry mobs of people, he may be in for (another) rude awakening. Sure, the Ponzi scheme architect, who pleaded guilty Thursday morning to all 11 charges against him, will escape the paparazzi that swarmed his Upper East Side penthouse. But experts…
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Zeroing in on Possible Madoff Co-Conspirators
Bernard Madoff, who is expected to plead guilty Thursday to running a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, may not be the only one to go to jail for the massive fraud that he allegedly masterminded. A piece by Lucinda Franks, posted Tuesday night on The Daily Beast, suggests that the feds are focusing their attention on some…
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A New Twist on Israeli Cuisine
“You can only go so long without eating really good hummus. And it’s about $1200 round trip to get to Israel,” said the Israeli-American Chef Michael Solomonov of Philadelphia’s year-old Zahav restaurant — serving up “modern Israeli” kosher-style cuisine. His solution to the hummus dilemma: Make your own, daily, and perhaps add a twist. Solomonov…
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