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Hollywood Goes Hillary
According to the Nation which blogged about her $1.1 million swing-through last week.
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Excessive Pride
When I was in the fourth grade, my Brooklyn yeshiva held a Torah fair. My partner — a girl whom I fancied a close friend but who was to move to California two years later, never to be heard from again — and I quickly decided on a parsha that had fascinated us since we’d…
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Notes on Camp
My little girl is starting “real” day camp this summer. Last summer she went to the 14th Street Y for part of the summer, and to Central Park’s Zoo Camp for a week. (I particularly enjoyed her telling me after a day at Zoo Camp, “Boy peacocks have big fancy tails so they can wave…
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Malibu Bubbe: The Real Gidget
Before the Beach Boys, before Frankie and Annette, there was Gidget
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WJC Hopes Lauder Election Will End Scandals
With the election of Ronald Lauder as its interim president, the World Jewish Congress is hoping to put aside years of turmoil from political infighting and allegations of financial mismanagement. Lauder, the president of the Jewish National Fund, defeated Mendel Kaplan, 59-17, in a vote Sunday of the organization’s board of governors. Earlier in the…
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Steve Cohen Gets Set for Racially Charged Rematch
His chief opponent from 2006’s race, Nikki Tinker, just filed a statement of candidacy with the FEC, the Hill reports.
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Al Franken’s New BFF: Amy Klobuchar
Al Franken — or whoever becomes the eventual Democratic nominee for Senate in Minnesota — will likely want a helping hand from freshman Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, who just won a coveted leadership spot in the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Meanwhile, that Democratic field just gained one more candidate — tax lawyer Bob Olsen.
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Power Couples Offer Advice
HOW POWER COUPLES JUGGLE WEALTH, FAMILY LIFE AND YIDDISHKEIT “Wisdom from the wealthy” would be an apt description of the 92nd Street Y’s May 8 sold-out lecture, “Power Couples: How They Live and Work.” Moderated by TV journalist-cum-diplomatic inquisitor Lynn Sherr, it put on the marital hot seat Evelyn and Leonard Lauder, Daryl and Steve…
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On Eve of Olmert Visit, Israel Rebuffs American Push for Interim Peace Steps
Washington – With Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert poised for a White House visit, Israeli and American officials are divided over proposals to alleviate the situation in the Palestinian territories. Israel informed American negotiators last week that security concerns would prevent it from achieving all the benchmarks called for in the latest American-sponsored plan. The…
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Backroom Deals Shape Fight for WJC Leadership
While the upcoming elections for the leadership of the World Jewish Congress came about after the organization was criticized for lacking transparency, a number of newly released documents suggest that the elections are being shaped by a series of secretive backroom deals. The most surprising result of the recent jockeying came May 30 when the…
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Tehran Arrests Iranian Americans in Echo of ‘Shiraz Dozen’ Affair
Iran’s recent arrest of several Iranian Americans on spying charges is best understood as a repeat performance of the Islamic regime’s imprisonment seven years ago of a group of traditional Jews. In 1999, a dozen Jews from the Iranian city of Shiraz were thrown in jail and indicted for allegedly working for Israel. After an…
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