Allison Gaudet Yarrow
By Allison Gaudet Yarrow
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Culture Germany: A 3G Love Story
In America we know the poignant narratives of the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, but we are less familiar with the generation of Germans whose forebears were Nazi sympathizers or turned their eyes away from the atrocities of the camps and gas chambers. Photographer Adam Golfer aims to change this. First on a fellowship…
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The Schmooze Mitch Albom: Writer, Ivory Tickler
Shut your books and rock. If you’re the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of “really famous authors” — as the band’s Web site boasts, not inaccurately — you’ll agree with that statement. At least this week, during the 2010 Wordstock tour, you will. Jewish member Mitch Albom recently made rabbis look good according…
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Israel News Living the Surreal Life
The mind of Israeli writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret doesn’t rest easy, and the same could be said of Keret’s feet. He landed in New York recently, and decided that the best way to traverse Manhattan to record a podcast at the Forward studios was to walk. He was in the states, in part, for…
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Life Mary Gaitskill’s Liliths
Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and writer of fiction about women, strip poles and sexual guilt, Mary Gaitskill read a story at Franklin Park bar in Brooklyn on April 12 in which cuckolded political wives Silda Spitzer and Elizabeth Edwards become the Eves to Ashley Dupré’s and Rielle Hunter’s Liliths, and in doing so they take a…
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The Schmooze NoPad in Israel
Israel has banned Apple’s new tablet computer, the iPad, because its wireless network is not equipped to handle the use of the machine, the Associated Press reported. The ban applies to both tourists and citizens, and the AP reported that 10 iPads have already been confiscated by customs officials who are charging the owners a…
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The Schmooze Jewish Fan Steals Second at Rangers Game
Jeremy Pinsly doesn’t play professional baseball, but during the Texas Rangers’ opener on Monday, he stole second base. “My boss told me he’d give me $1,000 [to do it], and an extra $100 if I slid headfirst,” the 23-year-old, who works in marketing, wrote in an e-mail to friends. “Me being a Jew, or a…
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Culture Deborah Gross: Blogger Turned Comedienne
Deborah Gross has so many funny conversations that she began blogging them — verbatim. She teaches people how to use the ATM. Her signature accessory, a family heirloom, gets mistaken for a swastika. And she has cultivated a unique relationship with an employee at the Dunkin’ Donuts she frequents where many of her conversations take…
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The Schmooze A Jew Among Circumcision Protestors, Capitol Hill Edition
On Capitol Hill recently, amid preposterously high kites and blooming cherry blossoms, a peaceful anti-circumcision protest took place. It was small. The protest that is. Men wore sandwich boards and a mother-daughter team jiggered signs that read: “Circumcision Is Torture” and “Circumcision Decreases Sensitivity.” Pony-tailed joggers posed for a photo with their thumbs up in…
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