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‘Hallelujah’ in Tel Aviv: Leonard Cohen Energizes Diverse Crowd
Despite the row ahead of his performance, when Leonard Cohen began his sell-out Tel Aviv concert Thursday, September 24, there wasn’t a hint of awkwardness about coming to Israel. Pro-Palestinian activists called on him to boycott Israel, but he came anyway and was brimming with enthusiasm about his host country. “How goodly are your tents…
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Leonard Cohen’s Manager: Western Academics Scuppered Ramallah Concert
Leonard Cohen’s plan to play a sister concert to his Israel gig in Ramallah was scuppered due to pressure from western academics and not primarily due to objections from within the Palestinian community, Cohen’s manager, Robert Kory, told the Forward. As the sellout Tel Aviv concert was about to get underway, Kory gave a frank…
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A Changing Landscape
FAYE WATTLETON WOWS AT CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN BENEFIT Leave it to sexpert Ruth Westheimer to head for the most powerful man in the room, Henry Kissinger, to give him her signature photo-op, neck stranglehold hug. Kissinger, his wife, Nancy, and Columbia University President Lee Bollinger were among the guests at the September 14…
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Yid.Dish: Who Invited Julia Child to Rosh Hashanah?
I did! I love to host the holidays. Nothing gives me more pleasure than planning, marketing, preparing, and entertaining for these special times, and I have established a tradition of going a little over the top for the occasion. I also loved the books Julie and Julia as well as My Life in France. Both…
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Jewish Lawyers Take Forefront In Representing Gitmo Detainees
David Remes, a Washington attorney who left a major corporate law firm to take on full-time representation of terrorism suspects held in the American detention center here, recalled vividly one of his early visits to meet with his clients. “We were a group of lawyers, and the young guard was leading us through the camp,”…
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Shul Resists Eviction by Charter School
The 18 men praying together early on a recent Friday morning, wrapped in tefillin and tallitot, didn’t exactly look like squatters. Their Orthodox synagogue, in the Mill Basin section of Brooklyn, also seemed fairly permanent. A hulking, wooden ark sat against one wall. Bookshelves filled with religious texts covered another. A blue velvet clothwith the…
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Irving Kristol, a Broker of Ideas Who Helped Create a Movement
There has been a flurry of obituaries and appreciations of Irving Kristol in recent days. And rightly so. Whether you admire his conservative ideas or loathe them, his mark on American politics is undeniable. He was, simply put, a key architect of the conservative revolution of the 1970s and 1980s that altered the Republican Party,…
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A Final Yom Kippur in the Delta for Mississippi Community Begun in 1830s
As the members of Temple Beth El in Lexington, Miss., pray this Yom Kippur for inclusion in the Book of Life, they’ll be attending a funeral of sorts. The Ne’ilah, the day’s traditional closing service, will be the last scheduled worship to be held in their 104-year-old white wooden synagogue. “Our last regular service had…
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The Real Meaning of Community
Americans may be bowling alone, but they talk incessantly about community. Few words seemed more overused and less applicable to American life than this one. There seems to be an inverse relationship between the dilution of the collective underpinnings of Jewish collectiveness and the increasing usage of the word “community.” When soccer moms studying kabbalistic…
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Everything Is Explained
Building a sukkah is serious business. It takes brawn and wit and a steady hammer. It takes dedication and a keen eye for design. After all, a sukkah is a sacred shelter — as mythic as a treehouse and as inviting as a dining room table. It is a place to stargaze, to spend time…
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A Homecoming for Folk Singer Keren Ann
This month Keren Ann finished producing the second album of French actress and singer Emmanuelle Seigner, who is married to Roman Polanski. When Iggy Pop, who appeared on the album as a guest, asked why she had moved to Tel Aviv, she had an answer ready: “For love. What other reason do I have?” The…
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