Alana Newhouse
By Alana Newhouse
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News Her Funny Valentine Charms Her With Water, Duct Tape and Cipro
Unlike many Americans, I have had jugs of Poland Spring water and a month’s supply of beans and rice stored in my tiny Upper West Side kitchen for weeks. My husband, Daniel, beat a path to the local hardware store way before any of them sold out of duct tape and plastic sheeting. For Valentine’s…
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News ZOA Said To Be Selling Its Tel Aviv Center
The Zionist Organization of America may be selling its cultural center in Tel Aviv, in a move that could prove controversial for the hawkish pro-Israel organization. The Israeli daily Ma’ariv reported earlier this month that the center, called the ZOA House and run by the organization since the 1950s, may be sold to the Kaldash…
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News Getting His Heroes on Canvas
The figures are striking, even when they’re not. With stocky bodies, some swarthy, some pale, their thick muscles flexed, the fighters strut and glare and pose with their gloves. Their hair is greased back, their eyes focused on their opponent, the viewer. And, on many, embroidered right below the thick waistbands of their dark trunks…
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News The Party’s Over, and On Again, at Celebrations Web Site
Last month, a crash sent waves of dread and sadness throughout the world. It wasn’t the stock market, or the downing of a plane, but it nevertheless prompted a groundswell of communal reaction. On December 29, 2002, the lights at OnlySimchas.com went out. As it turned out, the darkness was only temporary. Within a week,…
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News Antisemitic Incidents Roiling Brooklyn
A rash of antisemitic incidents in Brooklyn has sent shivers through communities at the borough’s heavily Jewish southern end, prompting a local congressman to convene a town hall meeting this week where Democratic Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton were to appear, along with assorted state and local officials. Antisemitic incidents striking south Brooklyn in…
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Culture For Early Childhood Educators, Some Overdue Respect From Reform Movement
An organization is being established to serve the educators of the Reform movement’s early-childhood centers, officials announced at a conference this week. “We have a vision of an organization that can serve as a network, as a support system and as a professional body for early-childhood educators,” said Nancy Bossov, director of early childhood education…
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News Stars Shine on Black-Jewish Dialogue, but Is That All?
Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, Russell Simmons, Stevie Wonder. No, this is not the nominee list for this year’s MTV Awards. They are the new faces of black-Jewish relations. Last November’s reception for an organization devoted to nurturing the relationship between the African-American and Jewish communities was a star-studded affair. The crowd at the Foundation for…
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News An Orthodox Powerhouse in D.C. Suburb
SILVER SPRING, Md. — Neil and Fran Kritz are poster children for Modern Orthodoxy. Fran, a reporter for the Washington Post, won’t take a call from any source on the Sabbath. Neil, who is the director of the Rule of Law Program for the U.S. Institute of Peace, travels to war-torn countries to help rebuild…
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