Anthony Weiss
By Anthony Weiss
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Culture Portland Finds Trendy New Jewish World in the East
(JTA) — Until recently, Jo Borkan was thinking about leaving Portland. She had lived in the city almost her whole life and owns a house on the city’s east side. But Borkan craved a connection to Judaism, and she couldn’t seem to find one that fit with her spiritual explorations into yoga and meditation. Despite…
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The Schmooze Gary Shteyngart’s Love-Hate Relationship With (Russian) TV
Gary Shteyngart from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. (JTA) — Novelist Gary Shteyngart has made his reputation with wry explorations of ambivalent, conflicted, often frustrated love. Now he is launching into a new affair with television, and it seems that he’s carrying a full freight of mixed emotions. Last week came the news that Ben…
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The Schmooze Nick Kroll’s Ode to L.A. Delis
Comedy Central (JTA) — Comedian Nick Kroll, host of the eponymous Kroll Show, recently aired a heavy-metal ditty in homage to the pleasures of rocking it late-night in LA’s delis: Kroll, a former Solomon Schecter student and the squeeze of comedy titan Amy Poehler, name-drops a few LA delis, including Jerry’s, Greenblatt’s, and Langer’s, but…
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The Schmooze For ‘Aya,’ From Israel to the Oscars
Image courtesy Cassis Films (JTA) — The idea for “Aya” began with a daydream: What if you were waiting for someone at the airport and instead you picked up a total stranger? What then? That wisp of a fantasy, dreamed up by Mihal Brezis many years ago while waiting with a friend at Tel Aviv’s…
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Food A Reuben Worshipper Builds his Temple
A pastrami sandwich at the 9th South Deli in Salt Lake City. Photograph by Anthony Weiss (JTA) – Going back to his very first bite of a Reuben more than 50 years ago, Randy Harmsen has always loved deli food. So when he decided to open his own restaurant, the Salt Lake City native followed…
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Food ‘City of Gold’ Captures Flavor of L.A.
L.A. Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold shown in “City of Gold” digging into a Poseidon Tostada from the Mariscos Jalisco taco truck in Los Angeles. (JTA) — If you live in Los Angeles and care about food, you already know Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. You may have…
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The Schmooze ‘Censored Voices’ of ’67 War Speak Out at Sundance
Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival (JTA) – In the wake of Israel’s seemingly miraculous triumph in the Six-Day War in 1967, the country’s victorious soldiers were lionized as heroes. But in private, even just one week after the conflict, many of them didn’t feel that way. One describes feeling sick to his stomach in battle…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman Shows Her Dark Side
(JTA) — The Sarah Silverman that the world knows and loves is a loudmouthed, foulmouthed, ribald comedian who tramples on the boundaries of social decency with sharp purpose and uproarious glee. The Sarah Silverman who stars in the domestic drama “I Smile Back,” which premiered at Sundance, is stripped of both bravado and joy. In the…
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