Gabrielle Birkner
By Gabrielle Birkner
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Life Who Voted How Where
It’s 10 p.m. in Israel — and the polls are now closed. Real-time election results by city and sector (Kibbutzim, Bedouin, etc.) can be tracked here.
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Life Sarah Palin of the Holy Land
Having dubbed her “The Palin of Israel,” Newsweek looks at the model thin resume of Orly Levy — the fashion plate turned Knesset candidate on the hard-right Yisrael Beiteinu list. Of Levy’s candidacy, the Israeli writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret tells the magazine: “This would be like Paris Hilton going to the Senate. You could…
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Life In Israel, Change You Can Xerox
In advance of Tuesday’s election in Israel, candidates of various persuasions have shown no shame in cribbing from the storied presidential campaign of Barack Obama — regardless of their ideological similarities or differences with the American president, The Daily Beast reports. The Shas Party, whose constituency traditionally has been composed of Orthodox Sephardic Jews, has…
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Life The Source of That Mysterious Maple Syrup Smell: Israel
The source of a mysterious maple syrup-like odor, which wafted over the island of Manhattan on several occasions since 2005, appears to be the 76-year-old, Haifa-based company Frutaron, according to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The New York Times reports: “The city revealed on Thursday that the culprit was the seeds of fenugreek, a cloverlike…
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Life Madoff’s Lawyer Not Part of ‘Madoff Diaspora,’ After All
Even though his name and the names of his late parents appear on the 162-page list of purported Bernard Madoff investors, Ira Sorkin, Madoff’s attorney, tells The Wall Street Journal: “I have never been an investor or customer of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities. I’m not going to talk about my family members.” If the…
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Life Could Bernie Madoff Not Find a Lawyer Whom He Hadn’t (Allegedly) Bilked?
In what The New York Post has dubbed “Swindler’s List,” a document containing some 13,000 names and addresses of those who claim to have invested with Madoff was filed Wednesday in federal bankruptcy court. To see the list, click here. Not surprisingly, it is chock-full of Jewish names — including retired baseball pitcher Sandy Koufax,…
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Israel News The Rabbi That Roared
What do you get the man who has everything for his 50th birthday? A 400-pound endangered Asian lion, of course. At least that’s what Rabbi Marc Schneier, the founding rabbi of two New York-area synagogues, got from his wife, Tobi Rubinstein-Schneier. The Schneiers were the guests of honor at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo on January…
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Life Who Lost What With Madoff, Courtesy of Nick Kristof’s College Housemate
Foundations with monikers such as Eisenberg, Felder, Gottleib, Gottesman, Greenman and Kaufman are among those that may have lost big as a result of Bernard Madoff’s alleged Ponzi scheme. That’s according to columnist Nicholas D. Kristof’s post Thursday on the New York Times Web site. He writes: “A few private foundations have owned up to…
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