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Desperately Lost Americans Find Themselves in Prague
The View From Stalin’s Head By Aaron Hamburger Random House Trade Paperbacks, 245 pages, $12.95. —– If recent literary fiction is any indication, Prague is giving Brooklyn a run for its money in terms of attracting young, disaffected American Jewish men. Gary Shteyngart’s “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook” returns a post-Soviet Manhattanite slacker back not to…
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Dodging Clarke’s Charges
Richard Clarke, top anti-terrorism adviser to several presidents — Republican and Democrat — has written a bombshell of a book about the Bush administration’s handling of terrorist threats. Clarke’s revelations have shaken up the White House. Clarke charges that Bush paid him no mind when he brought the issue of the threat of an Al…
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In the Spotlight
This is the fourth in a series of special sections celebrating the 350th anniversary of the arrival of Jews in the United States. In 1932, an aesthete from Iowa named Carl Van Vechten visited Vienna and reported back home that “they don’t play Johann [Strauss] here anymore; it’s all [George] Gershwin and [Irving] Berlin.” The…
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Finding an Audience: Years of Invisibility
As no less an authority than Krusty the Clown has told us, “Jew” is synonymous with “entertainment.” I would like to point out that when the first Jews reached Manhattan in 1654, arriving from Brazil as banana-peddlers, they brought with them not only their wares but also a comically paradoxical ditty that insisted, yes, they…
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‘Campus SuperStar’ Sexes Up College Life With Song
It was 7:58 p.m. on Thursday night, and 700 screaming fans were gathered inside EarthLink Live, a hip concert venue in Midtown Atlanta. Outside, another 300 eager ticketholders lined the street. A young 20-something shrieked into her cell phone, taunting a jealous friend as she sauntered through the throngs into the sold-out event. In the…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL April 9, 2004
To regular readers of this column, the timely, lighthearted and clever poems by Stanley Siegelman in Yiddish and English are by now well-known. As might be expected, he was unable to pass over Passover. So, here’s his latest: Bay Dem Seyder Zingt Ayeder A gliklekher ovnt Pesakh nakht S’iz ven der seyder vert gemakht. M’fayert…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Embattled Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff is fighting back against his congressional critics, accusing them of “improper conduct” and demanding an ethics investigation into their activities. Abramoff, a top fund-raiser for President Bush’s reelection campaign and one of the capital’s leading Orthodox philanthropists, is being investigated by his former law firm regarding what congressional probers are…
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Anything Goes In Amsterdam
As Xaviera Hollander spoke to an admiring crowd of fans, friends and former lovers at New York’s Museum of Sex recently, it was clear she hadn’t lost her ardor for spinning titillating tales of sexual dalliance and decadence. These days, however, the former Penthouse columnist and author of the best-selling tell-all book about her life…
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Grand Jury Scrutinizes Right-Wing Bingo King
A grand jury in Los Angeles County has been seeking information about the California gambling operations of Dr. Irving Moskowitz, a Miami Beach philanthropist known for his financial support of Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Scott Wildman, a former Democratic member of the California state Assembly, told the Forward that he…
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How a New Means of Production Made Matzo Modern
If white bread and apple pie can be said to be America’s contribution to gastronomy, surely mass-produced matzo is not far behind. The invention, in 1838, of a machine to knead matzo, followed five decades later by the opening of America’s first matzo factory, in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Rabbi Dov Behr Manischewitz, radically transformed this…
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‘Suicide-Bombing Capital’ Thrives As New Barrier Nears Completion
JENIN, Northern Samaria — Life is returning to normal here in the city once known as the suicide-bombing capital of the West Bank. The economy is picking up, services are being restored and local leaders describe a new optimism. The reason, Israeli military officials say, is the nearly completed security fence separating this sector of…
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