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(New York Jewish Week) — In a small shop located along a busy stretch of 30th Avenue in Astoria, Queens, a jeweler-turned-restaurateur is serving up a unique combination: Korean-inspired sandwiches served on the essential New York Jewish carbohydrate that is the bagel. When Ben Suh opened Between the Bagel three years ago, he didn’t set…
During a press conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a reporter asked President Trump whether he was confident in Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The president refused to answer, Talking Points Memo reported. “Next question?” Trump reportedly responded as he pivoted in his chair. As a second reporter began asking a different question, Trump…
South Korea’s government has called on a Turkish news channel to apologize for reporting that President Moon Jae-in and Ivanka Trump are a “killer couple.” Referring to a photograph taken of the two meeting at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Show TV also referred to Moon and Ivanka as “a millionaire businessman and his wife.” During…
“I know a great guy for you,” wasn’t what I had expected to hear the first time I met my language partner over coffee on a frigid winter day in Seoul. But it was something I got used to pretty quickly when I studied abroad in South Korea at 21. After growing up hearing about…
No one could accuse Robert Downey Jr. of being boring. The actor really, really tries to embrace local customs wherever he goes. While in South Korea promoting the third installment of the Iron Man franchise in early April, he stunned locals by busting out some Gangnam-style dance moves. Most recently, still on the Iron Man…
Jewcy reviews the work of Bonnie Lucas, “another artist toiling forever as art teacher with a mature body of thirty years work in her fifth floor walk-up.” What better place than Israel for an adult archeology camp? But are Jewish studies on decline in the country’s universities? Talmud study is catching on in South Korea….
