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I enter the coffee shop and scan the room looking for Ari. I finally spot him comfortable on a couch, heavily engaged in conversation with an older man who seems to be important to him. I cannot he...
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Nov 20, 2011 | 0 | 13 |
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Tom Tugend, writing in the Nov. 2 edition of The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, relates the amazing story of a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising:
“One early revelation (to me) was that there were two main, s...
Nov 18, 2011 | 0 | 23 |
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Lazar, an Orthodox American man transplanted to Jerusalem with his wife, is a bit of a schlemiel. He has trouble holding a job. He tries to be a tour guide for English speakers, but no one will hir...
Nov 16, 2011 | 0 | 12 |
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Lazar, an Orthodox American man transplanted to Jerusalem with his wife, is a bit of a schlemiel. He has trouble holding a job. He tries to be a tour guide for English speakers, but no one will hir...
Nov 13, 2011 | 0 | 7 |
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When Mark Rothko accepted the commission to paint a series of murals for the elegant Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan, his aim, he famously said, was to “ruin the appetite of every son-of-a-bit...
Oct 31, 2011 | 0 | 18 |
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Traveling to Israel for the second time made quite an impression on artist Suki Chan, a 34-year-old Hong Kong native who was raised in London and now lives there. This time around, Chan — who combi...
Oct 25, 2011 | 0 | 18 |
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Four-time Olympic gold medalist Lenny Krayzelburg opened a swim academy at the Westside Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles to teach kids about safety—not to turn them into career athletes.
“We ...
Oct 19, 2011 | 0 | 20 |
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Alexandra’s 28-year-old daughter, Alina, did not have trouble meeting eligible men to date; she was just having trouble finding the right one, her beshert.
So, as Jewish mothers have been doing for...
Oct 14, 2011 | 0 | 6 |
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Andy Statman, considered by many to be the dean of American klezmer musicians, was born and raised in Brooklyn and pays homage to his home through many of his tunes — “East Flatbush Blues, “Flatbus...
Oct 10, 2011 | 0 | 10 |
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Jiri Weil was one of the most remarkable Jewish writers that you’ve never heard of. Indeed, the Czechoslovakian-born author was underappreciated and relatively unknown outside of his native countr...
Oct 03, 2011 | 4 | 16 |
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When Norman Gershman told his friend, fellow photographer Stuart Huck, that he was traveling to Albania to shoot pictures of righteous people, Huck was happy to offer advice about what photographic...
