Gabriel Sanders
By Gabriel Sanders
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Israel News 2nd Ave Deli Cooks Up Controversy
An enthusiastic review by New York Times food critic Frank Bruni of the newly reopened 2nd Ave Deli last week no doubt triggered hunger pangs, but it also set into motion something more unexpected: a spirited discussion about whether a restaurant open on the Sabbath can still be considered kosher. After a correspondent posed the…
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News GOP Hopefuls Court Sunshine State Jews
Boca Raton, Fla. – Politically speaking, there is little room between Jerry Levy and his daughter Nanette Gordon. Republicans both, the two sat side by side as Senator Joseph Lieberman sang John McCain’s praises at an event sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition here last week. Come January 29, however, when Florida holds its primary,…
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Culture Brandeis Professor Explores ‘Sex and the Shtetl’
The timing could not have been better. When ChaeRan Freeze completed her coursework toward a doctorate in Russian Jewish history in 1993, it was just as the doors to the archives in Moscow and St. Petersburg were beginning to swing open. As a result, she was among the first to request long-untouched troves of material…
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News Family Scrapbook: A History of Miami Beach
There’s something counterintuitive about a history of Miami Beach — a place given more to ephemeral pleasures than to cold, hard facts. A Miami vacation may feel as immediate as can be, but given a week’s remove and the place — like a suntan — pretty much just floats away. That is, unless one is…
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Israel News 2nd Ave Deli, Open at Last
It was a ribbon-cutting — of sorts. Pulled taut before the newly reopened 2nd Ave Deli, whose new digs are not on its eponymous avenue but on 33rd Street between Lexington and Third, was a seemingly endless string of miniature salami links, nickel shtikels — a reminder of an era when the language of Second…
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Israel News Pastry Diplomacy
Earlier this month, after Hungarian president László Sólyom’s refusal to sign a hate-speech bill into law, representatives of the country’s official Jewish community declined an invitation to an interfaith luncheon at the leader’s official residence, as a sign of their dismay. But the group’s move did not meet with the approval of all the country’s…
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Life Yid Vid: They Eschew TV, But If They Were To Buy One, It Would Be HD
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Culture They’re Building It, but Will They Come?
In a groundbreaking study released last spring, social scientists Steven M. Cohen and Ari Kelman reached a novel and, for some, startling conclusion: Far from being indifferent to Jewish cultural life, young unaffiliated Jews are actually quite interested in attending Jewish events — provided they are being offered outside the walls of Jewish venues. Young…
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