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Lessons in Life
February 27, 2006
From the New York Daily News
February 27, 2006
“I try to wear a suit most days,” says Frank Jump, explaining why he looks dapper. It’s not the uniform you’d expect for a teacher at an elementary school in a gritty...
What’s Right With ‘Munich’
February 8, 2006
I’m a Zionist, and I liked Spielberg’s film.
Avner Kaufmann, the reluctant warrior and protagonist of Steven Spielberg’s movie “Munich,” is honorable, strong, a family man–that is, a typical Israeli. That is...
Jewish Community Helps Victim of Russian Hostage Crisis Recover
November 14, 2005
November 14, 2005
Shifting from foot to foot in Kennedy Airport here, Anya Kadalaeva waited for the plane that would bring her father and sister.
In her jeans and lavender winter coat, her light brown hair pulled back in a ponytail, she...
CD Re-release Explores Mixing of Latin Music and Jewish Music
August 24, 2005
August 24, 2005
In 1959, when Irving Fields was playing piano at the Sherry Biltmore Hotel in Boston, two couples approached him with competing requests.
“One couple requested, ‘I Love You Much Too Much,’ a nice Jewish song,” Fields...
Almost By Accident, Jazz Pianist Helped Spark Musical Fusion Craze
August 24, 2005
August 24,2005
The CD of “Bagels and Bongos” features an interview with 90-year-old pianist Irving Fields, who still plays six nights a week at a Manhattan nightclub.
The liner notes describe Fields’ life story as one “of cultural...
Freedom Fighter
May 16, 2005
They killed Mithal Al-Alusi’s sons, but he won’t stop. He believes truth and freedom are too precious. Al-Alusi is the founder of the nine-month-old Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation (DPIN), a grassroots political party that...
The Dating Game
May 11, 2005
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THE DATING GAME
Photographs by Britt Carpenter
Ask the people who run dating services why their help is sorely needed, and they’ll tell you that most New Yorkers are...
Iraqi Politician’s Support for Israel Costs Him Dearly, But He Presses On
May 9, 2005
May 9, 2005
For daring to visit Israel, Mithal Al-Alusi has paid with more than his life: It cost him his two sons.
A Sunni Moslem who founded the Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation, or DPIN, Al-Alusi believes the new Iraq should defy...
Back From Iraq, Marine Aims for Laughs as a Comic Faces
April 8, 2005
Apr 08, 2005
If the young Woody Allen had been a tough guy, he might have been something like David Rosner. A study in seeming contradictions, Rosner is a stand-up comic and a reserve Marine Corps major — a self-described “recovered...
The Rabbi Guides the Rehab
March 12, 2004
Friday, March 12, 2004
HOUSES OF WORSHIP
Faith helps recovery–and gets in the way of some funding.
LOS ANGELES–It’s Friday night, and Rabbi Mark Borovitz is ministering to his flock. A fatherly man with a bushy...