Philip Sherman, cantor, actor and ‘busiest mohel in New York,’ dies at 67
Sherman boasted of being the only motorcycle-riding rabbi in the actors union — and of having once performed 11 circumcisions in a single day.
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The Schmooze ‘Orange is the New Black’ Will End After Season Seven
Say goodbye to those beloved orange jumpsuits on your TV screen. The cast of “Orange is the New Black” has announced that their upcoming seventh season, which will debut on Netflix in 2019, will be their last. Members of the OITNB cast released a tearjerking video on Wednesday evening regarding the cancelation of their show….
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Culture Leonard Bernstein, Lea DeLaria, A Carrot And A Quest For Genius
You know you are at a gala in New York if most every woman in attendance, yourself included, is wearing black. In another city, on another occasion, the solemn palette might register as funerary. At a gala celebrating the centenary of Leonard Bernstein, composer, conductor and reigning doyen of a certain era of New York…
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Culture The Jewish Museum’s New Exhibit Should Be More Radical. Here’s How.
If you wish to be radicalized as a Jew, one unconventional way to do so would be to visit the Jewish Museum. While a comfortably endowed cultural institution housed in a 5th Avenue mansion may not sound like a hotbed of revolution, one of the near-600 items in the new permanent exhibit “Scenes from the…
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Fast Forward Scottish Prison Launches Investigation Into Inmates Going Kosher
(JTA) — Inspectors have demanded an investigation into why a Scottish jail is serving up kosher meals to more than 100 prisoners when hardly any of its inmates are Jewish, a British weekly reported. The daily cost of normal prison meals per prisoner is about $2.50, but a report by the Inspectorate of Prisons for…
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News Scottish Inmates Scam Prison System in Bid for Kosher Meals
Life imitates art, again. “Orange is the New Black” fans might remember the episode in which a handful of prisoners pretended to be Jewish so they could eat the more edible kosher meals. Well, that’s actually happening right now in Glenochil Prison, a detention center in the county of Clackmannanshire, Scotland. More than 100 inmates…
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Life ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Season 4 Brings Deeper Issues — but Less Passion
I’ll admit, I’m an “Orange is the New Black” crier. No, “sobber” is probably more accurate. I blubbered through the bittersweet second season finale, hot tears raining down my cheeks as ball-busting Miss Rosa, in a final bid for freedom before she succumbs to cancer, mows down the villainous Vee in a stolen prison van…
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Culture ‘Orange is the New Black’ Star Alan Aisenberg Teases Upcoming Season
Alan Aisenberg won’t really say what’s going to happen to his character, Officer Bayley, on the upcoming season of “Orange is the New Black,” but from the way he winkingly edges around the topic — it’s going to be good. “Shit gets very real for Bayley,” he said, followed by a cryptic “This is a…
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