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Fencing Fanatic
Keep your distance,” leads to success on the strip but not in storytelling
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Glory From Garments
Back when “multimedia” implied the use of a bank of slide projectors and a stereo sound system, coordinated by an electronic device designed especially for that purpose, one site on the tourist circuit of Boston was a “multimedia” show about the city, “Where’s Boston?” One detail in a series of visual images from a celebration…
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Universal Health Care … But For $500 A Year?
The New York Times is touting a a new poll that shows “a majority of Amerians say the federal government should guarantee health insurance to every American … and are willing to pay higher taxes to do it.” The price they are willing to pay? For half of the respondents, not $500 more in taxes…
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That Purim Pastry
This year, I thought of it in time. Annually, whenever Purim has come around, I’ve always remembered too late that I should write a column about hamantashen. Or hamantaschen. Or hamantashes. Or homentaschen. Or hamentashes. Maybe that’s why I’ve always forgotten. How do you write about something with half-a-dozen spellings and two different plural forms?…
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Theater Veterans Honored
Seniors in Japan who have practiced, enriched and husbanded their country’s national artistic forms are designated as National Treasures during their life span. Notwithstanding a lifetime of accomplishment, international renown, devoted fans and scrapbooks full of reviews, most Yiddish actors never hear the accolades heaped upon them post-mortem, in eulogies where all jealousy and acrimony…
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A Yiddish Survival Strategy: A Poem
The Yiddish language, scorned and shunned, Has had its day! It’s moribund! It has no future! It is lost, Destroyed by lingual holocaust! The Yiddish tongue is trashed and burned, Rejected, cast aside and spurned. Recriminations such as these Abound, as do the obsequies. But let us take another look, Befitting People of the Book,…
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Exhibit Marks Collection’s Debut
Among the Jewish immigrants who arrived in America at the turn of the past century, most brought little in the way of material riches. Nonetheless, Cantor David Tillman said, “they brought with them tremendous culture.” Sitting in the tiny Temple Judea Museum, located in suburban Philadelphia’s Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, Tillman motioned to the Yiddish…
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Obama Speaks
Well, the advanced transcript of Obama’s speech to Aipac leaders is in. For the full text, read after the jump. Over at TalkingPointsMemo, M.J. Rosenberg had asked before the speech: “Will this be his Sister Soulja moment where he tells a powerful interest group something it does not want to hear, specifically that as President…
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Lieberman Backers Stay Firm, Despite GOP Buzz
As Washington buzzed last week over the possibility that Senator Joseph Lieberman could throw his support to the GOP, several of the independent lawmaker’s most loyal Democratic backers continued to voice support for him. Lieberman — who lost in Connecticut’s Democratic primary last year to businessman Ned Lamont, but won as an independent in the…
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Giuliani Feels the Love in South Carolina
Maybe Giuliani will be able to capture the hard-core GOP base after all: In a straw poll conducted in conservative Spartanburg County yesterday, the former NYC mayor led the field.
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Obama’s Man in Florida: Robert Wexler
Rep. Robert Wexler, who represents the heavily Jewish district in Palm Beach County that was at the center of the 2000 election fiasco, has agreed to be the co-chairman of Barack Obama’s Florida campaign (hat tip to Larry Lipman of the Palm Beach Post. “I have never been as excited about a candidate for president…
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