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The Schmooze 5 Jewish Moments From Jill Kargman’s ‘Odd Mom Out’
(JTA) — Bravo’s newest sitcom, which premiered Monday evening, stars Jill Kargman as Jill Weber, a sassy Jewish woman who marries into a blue-blooded Upper East Side family. The show, which is based on Kargman’s 2007 book, “Momzillas,” is hitting the airwaves just as another book about wealthy Upper East Side moms, “Primates of Park…
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Fast Forward New York Rabbis Arrested at Eric Garner Police Brutality Protest
Several prominent rabbis and the president of a national teachers union were arrested Thursday night while protesting police brutality. Rabbis Sharon Kleinbaum, Jill Jacobs, and Shai Held, along with Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, were taken into custody for blocking traffic to protest a grand jury’s decision not to indict…
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Fast Forward Man Charged in Upper East Side Attack on Jewish Couple
A 23-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested for assaulting an Orthodox Jewish couple in Manhattan this summer. A New York Police Department spokesman confirmed to JTA that Mustafa Mashni was charged with assault, as first reported on the Jpupdates website. The victims, in their 20s, were walking on the Upper East Side at approximately 8 p.m….
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News All the Senior Ladies
Ari Seth Cohen is a man who knows how to talk to ladies — at least if they’re 65 and up. Cohen, 32, is the creator of Advanced Style, a popular style blog celebrating dapper women, and some men, in their later years. Since starting the photography blog in 2008 with the goal of capturing…
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News German-Jewish Émigré Turns 100 — and Still Hosts Weekly East Gatherings
Gaby Glueckselig’s 100th birthday, celebrated last week at the Leo Baeck Institute for German Jewish History, represented a convergence of New York past and present, German and Austrian culture, experience and youth. For 25 years, Glueckselig’s name has been almost synonymous with the Stammtisch, a weekly German-language gathering that was started by two refugees, Bavarian…
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News Passover-Minded Synagogue Prepares To Sweep All Hametz From Its Inboxes
It happens every year, around this time. Jews start to wage war against hametz, or leavened food, by scouring cupboards and countertops, turning pockets inside out, dusting off books one page at a time — anything to rid the house of the offending particles before Passover. Now, a New York synagogue has taken this cleansing…
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Opinion Romemu Bans ‘Email Chametz’ on Passover
We’ve all felt it. That ever-present desire — compulsion, really — to check and then recheck our email. Just one more hit of the refresh button. Just one more scroll. Just one more reply-all. Just one more delete. We love it. And we hate it. Most of the year, we bemoan but ultimately accept the…
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Books In Search of a More Perfect Union
A rabbi and an imam walk into a bookstore. That may sound like the first line of a joke, but these aren’t any old rabbi and imam, and they’re not joking around. Rabbi Marc Schneier, the prominent Hampton Synagogue founder and Imam Shamsi Ali, former leader of the Islamic Cultural Center, a major Manhattan mosque,…
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