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At a Ripe Age, Eli Wallach Plays Juicy Jewish Roles
Round-faced and sunburned, with wild, kinky hair and a Mexican accent, Eli Wallach was in an utter rage at the end of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Clint Eastwood’s character had nearly killed him, and as Eastwood trotted away on a horse, Wallach chased after him, bellowing curses. It has been 36 years…
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Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle Together
A few minutes shy of 8 o’clock on a sticky August morning, a stylish restaurant in midtown Manhattan barely hummed, its normally alert staff still blinking back sleep. Suddenly the door swung open, blown back, it seemed, by some freakish wintry gale. But no mere force of nature disrupted the early-morning calm. It was French…
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Sukkot Hoof It Up: Rikuday Dor Rishon, an Israeli folk dance company, has an Israeli Folk Dance Sukkot Party and Marathon in which participants learn dances to songs about Sukkot and then demonstrate their steps in an open dance session. Refreshments celebrating the harvest festival are served. Bridge for Dance, 2726 Broadway; Oct. 12, class…
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Charges of Misconduct Against Rabbi Matis Weinberg (Correction)
In our August 22 issue, the Forward published an article about charges of misconduct against Rabbi Matis Weinberg that were to be considered at a rabbinical tribunal in Jerusalem. The article reported that Weinberg failed to appear at an August 14 hearing and referred to him as “AWOL” and a “no-show.” The Forward subsequently has…
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Death Is Celebrated and Life Means Less Than Nothing
No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century By Walter Laqueur Continuum, 288 pages, $24.95. * * *| Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power In a Violent World By Jean Bethke Elshtain Basic Books, 240 pages, $23. * * *| Terror and Liberalism By Paul Berman W.W. Norton & Company, 214…
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SHIP’S STORY RESURFACES
Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici tells the story of the sinking of The Struma, a dilapidated ship carrying nearly 800 Jews from Romania to Palestine via Turkey during World War II, in “The Struma” (2001), which makes its television debut on HBO2. The vessel left Constanza, Romania, in December 1941 and, suffering engine failure, barely…
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The Liberal Case for Palestine: “The loss of Professor Edward Said,” Christopher Hitchens eulogizes in a September 26 posting to Slate.com, “will be unbearable for his family, insupportable to his immense circle of friends, upsetting to a vast periphery of admirers and readers who one might almost term his diaspora, and depressing to all those…
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Goats to the Slaughter
‘And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the scapegoat…. And the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him and to let him go for a scapegoat unto…
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Savoring the Sweetness of Honey and Its Easy Symbolism
The symbolism of honey is so simple that children ingest it as swiftly as they do its ambrosial sweetness. This, perhaps, explains why it’s so central to Rosh Hashana celebrations. My mother and I dished — about honey — over brunch this Sunday at Whim. (The popular fish restaurant on a tree-lined side street in…
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The Fictionalized Babel: Twisting a Novelist’s Life Into Novelistic Shape
King of Odessa: A Novel By Robert A. Rosenstone Northwestern University Press, 256 pages, $24.95. * * *| The great Soviet writer Isaac Babel is renowned less for his work than for his status as a symbol of the brutality of the Communist regime. Justly famed for his short story collection, “Red Cavalry,” and his…
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Saying Thanks to the Behind-the-Scenes Bridge-Builders
Wearing his New York City Fire Department chaplain’s uniform, Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, president of the New York Board or Rabbis, delivered the invocation at the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York “Rebuilders of New York” September 9 dinner. JCRC officer and dinner co-chair Sally Goodgold offered the ha’motzi. Among the 300 guests at the…
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