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Life Sandy Makes Me Worry About My Future Family
My mom has been a global warming true believer since I can remember. As an avid lover of winter and a careful listener of Al Gore, she thought the evidence was obvious: Our grandparents had snow from Thanksgiving to Passover while we have less and less. My brother and I used to tease her for…
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Life Two Sides of a Cliché Coin
Last season, “The Real Housewives of New York City” started to fall apart. Like many reality show participants, the Housewives were all too aware of their own roles and too obsessed with promoting their products and businesses. So Bravo, the network that airs all of the “Housewives” shows, fired half the cast and brought in…
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Life My Apartment, My Sukkah
Of all the holidays I’ve never observed, Sukkot has always looked like the most fun. Growing up, I didn’t know anyone who celebrated the autumn festival; my awareness of it came entirely from reading. Sukkot would have seemed exotic if it wasn’t somehow so familiar, a combination of Thanksgiving and being allowed to sleep on…
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Food Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Makes New York Debut
Starbucks may have famously flopped in Israel back in 2003. But with 14 stores and counting, LA-based chain Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf has managed to gain a healthy foothold among Holy Land locals and American expats — partly because, as local-info site GoJerusalem.com has noted, the stores are all kosher. Now, with a similar…
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Opinion Shining a Light on Orthodox Safety Patrols in the Secular Press
Boro Park’s Orthodox neighborhood patrol group, known informally as the shomrim — Hebrew for watch guards — has faced increased media scrutiny in the past few weeks over its role in the investigation of the killing of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky on July 12. At issue is the fact that Kletzky’s disappearance was first reported to…
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Life On the Death of Leiby Kletzky, z”l
It is with an actually, physically aching heart that I report to you the death of an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy, Leiby Kletzky, who disappeared from a short, solo walk yesterday and was later found in a dumpster. Here is the story. I bring it up because it seems to prove that the incident that kicked…
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The Schmooze NYC’s Jewish ‘Street Fair King’ Upset Over Cuts
To organizers, they’re colorful, family-oriented neighborhood celebrations. To detractors, they’re traffic-snarling commercial ventures that hijack streets and punish locals. Now, after a long-simmering dispute over street fairs, New York City has decided to cut the size and hours of the outdoor bazaars, the Daily News reported this week. Street fairs, “which often generate complaints from…
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Food Mixing Bowl: New Year’s Dinner in Israel, New York’s Best Bagel and OU Lawsuits
The Orthodox Union and other kosher agencies are fighting lawsuits against companies that falsely use their name and certification, the Wall Street Journal reports. What’s the best bagel in New York City? Midtown Lunch attempts to answer the age-old question. Like many passionate foodies, Sarah Melamed of Israeli blog Food Bridge loves outdoor markets. This…
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