Gabriel Sanders
By Gabriel Sanders
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Books Goodbye, Grace
Writer Grace Paley died yesterday. A New York Times obit says that, “In a sense, her work was about what happened to the women that Roth and Bellow and Malamud’s men had loved and left behind.” Paley was 84.
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News Hartford Heralds Hometown Hero
When Sophie Tucker made her first return visit to her hometown of Hartford, Conn. — two years after slipping away to make a go of it as a singer in New York — she wasn’t exactly greeted with a hero’s welcome. “The women turned their backs,” she later wrote. “The men stared and tittered.” Not…
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Life Is Noah Feldman The N.Y. Times’ New Jayson Blair?
The Orthodox Union waded into the Noah Feldman debate with guns a-blazin’ today. With a press release titled, “Noah Feldman as the ‘Jewish Jayson Blair’?” the O.U.’s Institute for Public Affairs charged that both Feldman and The New York Times Magazine, where the Harvard legal scholar’s much-discussed July 22 critique of Modern Orthodoxy appeared, “knew…
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News Cheeky Blog’s Jewish Obsession Strikes a Funny Bone of Contention
Chicago Tribune entertainment reporter Mark Caro describes himself as one whose sensibility generally veers toward the ironic, but after reading a July 18 post on the New York-based gossip site Gawker.com, he found himself playing an unfamiliar role: scold. The story begins — as most news accounts from last week did — with the release…
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Israel News Mel Gibson Rep Denies Reports About Polish Priest Biopic
Earlier this week, the JTA reported that Polish priest Henryk Jankowski, a prominent figure in the Solidarity movement, said in an interview with a right-wing Polish daily that he was in talks with Mel Gibson about a possible film. For those looking for ammunition against the beleaguered director, the news seemed too good to be…
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News Caftans and Tank Tops Mingle Breezily On Long Island’s East End
Southampton, N.Y. – Gawking is a common enough pastime at summertime beach resorts, but the scene along one of this exclusive enclave’s main thoroughfares last Sunday grabbed more attention than the sleek convertibles and toned sunbathers that customarily have vacationers craning their necks. With a maroon wedding canopy at its head, a procession of about…
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Life Monkey Business at Jewish Girls’ School in Calcutta
India’s Express News Service reports: Much to the amusement of students and teachers, a monkey sneaked into the campus of Jewish Girls’ School today and caused quite a stir. However, it also attacked a few students when they came near it. The incident occurred at 10.30 this morning. After watching its antics for some time…
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News Just Who Was Daniel Pearl?
Asra Nomani should have loved “A Mighty Heart,” the new feature film about journalist Daniel Pearl’s abduction and murder in Pakistan five years ago. Pearl’s onetime Wall Street Journal colleague was, after all, a consultant on the film and a central player in the story itself. It was her Karachi home that became the headquarters…
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