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Furor Over Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition
Crowds at the Royal Ontario Museum’s heavily hyped Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition — Dead Sea Scrolls: Words That Changed the World, which runs until January 3, 2010 — have far exceeded the museum’s own expectations. In the show’s first nine days, more than 18,000 people flocked to the museum’s spectacular new Daniel Libeskind-designed Michael Lee-Chin…
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Claims Conference Picks Executive VP
The Claims Conference announced July 15 that Gregory Schneider will become the group’s new executive vice president. Schneider, 42, succeeds Gideon Taylor, who resigned to return to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Schneider has worked for the conference since 1995. Since 1951, the conference has worked to secure restitution for Nazi victims and their…
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Israel’s Politician as Super Woman
“Another soldier,” Anastasia Michaeli Samuelson said, patting her belly proudly when asked the sex of her soon-to-be-born eighth child. Michaeli, a glamorous 34-year-old Knesset member from Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party, is not being flippant. Nor is she daunted by the domestic burdens her concept of feminine patriotism implies. “God gave women powers,” she told…
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Clashes Over Sabbath Parking Lots Reveal Divisions Among Jerusalem’s Jews
Now a regular fixture on the front pages of Israel’s Sunday newspapers, pictures of parking protests by sometimes violent Haredim seem to chronicle a simple and familiar problem: religious-secular friction. In reality, the photos tell a different, more complicated story. In the months of June and July, there have been mass protests, turning violent at…
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After Murder, Yemeni Jews Arrive in N.Y. Enclave
Seven Yemeni Jews, refugees from the heightened tensions in their homeland, have arrived in New York and begun settling into new lives amid the Orthodox community in Monsey. They are the first wave of what could be as many as 113 Yemeni Jews who are expected to immigrate to the United States, some as early…
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Dovish Groups Get Surprise Invitation to White House
A coveted invitation to meet with President Obama at the White House was extended to the leaders of 14 Jewish groups, including many of the expected mainstream organizations and two surprises: the dovish J Street and Americans for Peace Now. Just as notable was the list of groups that did not receive invitations to the…
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The Pickle: No Second Fiddle
Oh, the poor, humble pickle. Whether lying next to a hamburger or slipped as an afterthought into tuna salad, pickles routinely play second fiddle in American cuisine. Of course, with its greenish complexion and homely bumps, the fermented cucumber hardly qualifies as leading lady material. Still, something feels amiss when the pickle is not around….
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A Children’s Bible That Appeals More to Adults Than to Kids
Ellen Frankel, CEO and editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society, has labored for the better part of her career to make Jewish traditional texts more palatable to a general audience. The new “JPS Illustrated Children’s Bible” — a hybrid of JPS’s modern translation, along with Frankel’s reinterpretations of words and phrases that were archaic, awkward…
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Bikel’s B’day Bash
CELEBRATING THEODORE BIKEL’S 85TH BIRTHDAY AT CARNEGIE HALL “Whenever I’m asked what I’d like for a birthday present,” actor, singer and activist Theodore Bikel said, “I am quick to say, an evening with friends. A party where we will make music.” And that’s just what Theo, as his friends call him, got on June 15…
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Stealing Fanny
Manus Gass of River Edge, N.J., writes: “Reading about Michelle Obama’s cousin, Rabbi Capers Funnye, stirred a recollection of a Russian Jewish word that I believe referred to the Tsar: ‘Fonye.’ If I remember correctly, it was sometimes followed by *ganef, *thief. Could you let me know whether such a word or phrase really exists?”…
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Yid.Dish: Nasturtium Butter, A Gardener Cooks
Call me old-fashioned, but I always thought flowers were for vases – not plates. Oh, sure, I read the articles showing a cheerful chef tossing a nasturtium blossom on a pile of lettuce. Surely a tasteless bid for attention, I sniffed. A recent web search for organic pest riddance has given me a new taste…
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