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What’s on Mayor Koch’s Tombstone
Some of the final words spoken by Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl before he was beheaded by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan — “My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish” — are inscribed on the tombstone of Mayor Edward Koch, who led New York City from 1978–1989. So too is the…
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The Return of the Tam Tam
Last year, all hell nearly broke loose when, due to apparent technological and budget issues, Manischewitz failed to deliver Tam Tam crackers, a popular Passover snack. As JTA reported: The outcry was immediate; Jewish consumers coast to coast mourned the absence of the beloved cracker. Stories ran not only in the Jewish media but The…
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Jeffrey Zaslow Has Some Advice for Forward Readers
Jeffrey Zaslow, a Wall Street Journal columnist and the co-author of “The Last Lecture,” will be the Forward’s guest Bintel Brief columnist, answering reader questions during the month of March. When he was 28, Zaslow beat out 12,000 other applicants to replace the high priestess of advice, Eppie Lederer (a.k.a. Ann Landers), as The Chicago…
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James Bond Promotes Circumcision
James Bond wants to help more men get circumcised, and he’s gone to a part of the world where they’re into that sort of thing. Former 007 actor Roger Moore is in Israel this week, where he expects to raise $5,000 for efforts to circumcise more men as part of AIDS-prevention efforts in Swaziland. The…
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Sayed Kashua in Demand, Israeli Press in Purgatory
Israeli Arabs have never been so in demand, and they have the strong showing of the hard-line anti-Arab Yisrael Beiteinu party to thank. This is the thesis of the novelist and satiric columnist Sayed Kashua in Haaretz. Kashua, one of the country’s best-known Israeli Arab writers, has a knack of giving a great insight in…
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Mel Gibson on Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Shalom to You’
Three years after his anti-Semitic outburst after being pulled over by police in Malibu, Mel Gibson emerged after the Oscars to receive a warm reception from a live television audience. The 1995 Oscar-winning director, who told police officers during a July 2006 drunken driving arrest that “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the…
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When Merkin Met Madoff
New York Magazine’s Steve Fishman writes what is, perhaps, the best character study to date of both Bernard Madoff and the disgraced investor and Madoff enabler J. Ezra Merkin. The article, at times sympathetic, delves deep into the psyches of both men — pulling up new information about Madoff ‘s class resentment, and about what…
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‘Bashir’ Team Noshing Away Their Sorrows
One thing is for sure: The Israeli creators of “Waltz with Bashir” are no sore losers. Director Ari Folman and his crew of producers and animators managed to keep their spirits up even after hearing that the Oscar for best foreign language film went to “Departures” from Japan. This was not an easy task given…
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How Do I Stop My Dad From Feeding Ham to My Kosher Son?
Dear Ayelet, I grew up in a secular home, but now consider myself Modern Orthodox. My husband and I keep a kosher home, but we are less strict about the laws of kashrut out of the house. When we go to my father and stepmother’s house, my 18-month-old son gets string cheese and cut up…
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And the Oscar Didn’t Go to ‘Bashir’
The Israeli film “Waltz With Bashir” — Ari Folman’s animated documentary about the 1982 Lebanon War — was favored to win the Oscar for best foreign language film. But it was beat out for the award Sunday by the Japanese contender “Departures,” about an unemployed classical musician who takes a job in a mortuary. And so…
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In Advance of the Oscars, ‘Bashir’ Attacked on Two Fronts
“Waltz with Bashir” may be the favorite for winning the Oscar in the Foreign Language Film category, but back home in Israel, the film’s director, Ari Folman, is being slammed from both sides of the political map. First, it was the right-wing pundits who argued that the film — criticizing Israel’s actions in the 1982…
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