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I’m in (Hamantaschen) Heaven
They fill my dreams; they haunt my waistline. And each year, as Purim approaches, I am seized with fear: My name is Sarah, and I am a hamantaschen addict. Raspberry, cherry, apricot, strawberry or prune… once I start, I cannot stop (except for poppy seed). So this year, I took a new approach. Instead of…
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The Little Boy Who Loved Hamantaschen
Once upon a time, there was a little boy who loved hamantaschen. He loved hamentaschen so much that he would eat any kind. (A hamantasch, as you probably know, is a special kind of a filled cookie baked for Purim and shaped like a triangle to commemorate Haman’s three-cornered hat. Haman, of course, was the…
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Purim Shpiels Aplenty
It’s not difficult for New Yorkers to find their niche, and Purim events are no exception. Yiddishists should check out the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene’s “Purim in Khelm,” a fully staged Purim shpiel written and directed by Motl Didner, with original songs by Miryem-Khaye Seigel. The show, which is sponsored by the City University of New…
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A Holiday Tale
Amalia Hoffman’s dreamlike illustrations bring to life her story of Kleineh Adella and Groyseh Adella, two troublemaking young maids who can’t resist the aromas of freshly baked Purim pastries. Set in the shtetl of Stanislavka, “Purim Goodies,” (Gefen Publishing House), is peppered with Yiddish words and humor, and includes a glossary and a hamantaschen recipe….
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The Demise of a Small-town Business
Shlepping armloads of trousers to an empty rack, his face set with determination and a hint of joy, Steve Felix was working till the bittersweet end of Felix’s, his 101-year-old clothing store in this town of 4,500. On a recent Thursday, men’s and women’s fine clothing was selling at prices not seen since Steve’s grandfather,…
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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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