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Spotlight On Folksbiene
LAUGHTER IN THE AISLES AT TOWN HALL’S FOLKSBIENE GALA With its curtain-raising musical opener, “Tzadiks and Nudniks, Shlemiels No Goodniks” — a takeoff on Stephen Sondheim’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” — the June 17 National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene benefit at Town Hall was off and running. In keeping with the…
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Yid.Dish: Black Eyed Pea Salad
When I have people over for Shabbat dinner during the winter I always make some kind of kugel as a side dish. But in the summer, nobody wants a warm kugel, so I have to come up with a nice rotation of cold salads that don’t bore me to death. This one I got from…
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Obama Goes on Charm Offensive in Israel
Haifa, Israel — However it may affect American public opinion, Barack Obama’s midsummer Middle East campaign tour had a powerful impact on the nations he visited — though not in the ways that most observers anticipated. Israelis, many of whom viewed Obama with suspicion because of his rumored coolness toward the Jewish state, awoke Wednesday,…
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Neocons Lash Out at White House for Diplomatic Overtures to Iran
The Bush administration’s recent diplomatic overtures toward Iran have unleashed a torrent of criticism from neoconservatives and have fueled concerns in Israel that Washington is shelving the option of using military force against Tehran’s nuclear facilities. After months of rejecting the possibility of negotiating with Iran until it suspends nuclear enrichment, the administration sent a…
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Nazi-Hunter Claims Most-Wanted Prey Is Alive and Free in South America
After decades of false sightings, the Simon Wiesenthal Center claims it is closing in on Aribert Heim, a former physician nicknamed the “Butcher of Mauthausen” because of the torture experiments he conducted on Jewish prisoners at the concentration camp in Austria. According to Efraim Zuroff, director of the center’s office in Jerusalem, a recent visit…
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Phoenix Mayor Challenges Popular Sheriff’s Anti-Immigration Tactics
Phoenix — At first glance, Mayor Phil Gordon’s office in downtown Phoenix looks like that of any other mayor, replete with photos of his kids and a sweeping view of the city. In the case of Arizona’s capital, that means rolling desert hills. But in an otherwise sparsely decorated workspace, one detail stands out: a…
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Blogger Focuses on Orthodox Foibles
Picking up the phone at 4:30 in the afternoon, Shmarya Rosenberg answered in a voice still bleary from sleep. He explained that he was just napping after having blogged the whole night, and most of the morning. “It’s hard to do one of these blogs,” Rosenberg said. “It owns you. It’s terrible. If I had…
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Public Relations Firm Criticized
Is all fair in love and PR? Some public relations industry observers say that 5WPR, the firm that represents the embattled kosher meat company Agriprocessors, crossed an ethical line when an employee apparently impersonated Agriprocessors critics online. The controversy over 5WPR is, in the context of Jewish affairs, an odd spin-off of the ongoing saga…
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As Camp Sale Falls Through, Alums Remain Hopeful
Los Angeles — In a surprise turnabout, troubles in the real-estate market have scuttled a controversial plan to sell a beloved Jewish summer camp in Northern California to a Christian group, reviving the possibility that the camp might remain in Jewish hands. The facility, Camp Swig, is one of the oldest summer camps of Reform…
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The Bokhers of Summer
Peyes swing from under Yankees caps, and players sling Yiddish jeers from the outfield, when the Stormers take the hardtop for their Sunday games at Brooklyn’s McCarren Park. The teams of Brooklyn’s Greenpoint Softball League reflect the boro’s inimitable patchwork of cultures, and the Stormers — with a hardworking 3-23 record — represent Williamsburg’s sizable…
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Summer Lovin’ Outside the City
Most of the time, I am self-righteous and self-congratulatory about my choice to raise children in the city. I pontificate about the myriad cuuuuultural opportunities and diveeeeersity; I boast about being able to walk everywhere; I coo about living in a tenement just like the ones our huddled-mass Jewish ancestors yearned to escape. I am…
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