Lisa Keys
By Lisa Keys
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News A Brooklyn Boy Whose Childhood Dreams Stop Here
It’s a typical morning at Borough Hall in downtown Brooklyn. Politicians are meeting and greeting, children are dancing jigs and an impressive amount of Irish coffee is being consumed at 9 a.m. The borough’s stentorious president, Marty Markowitz, a smiling, roly-poly man, is wearing a tall striped hat that seems plucked from the pages of…
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News Academy Awards Often Shine For Holocaust-Themed Films
This Sunday, documentary film directors Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender will don their tuxedos, smile for the paparazzi and sit anxiously in the Kodak Theatre, waiting to see if their names will follow the words, “And the Oscar goes to…” In the 2002 Academy Awards Best Documentary Feature category, Clarke and Sender face tough competition….
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News Comic Brings Down the House on Synagogue Circuit
We’ll start with the most obvious: Comedian Joel Chasnoff is cute. At a performance at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan last week, this reporter’s date — er, sister — whispered this observation when Chasnoff emerged from the area serving as the backstage. A JCC volunteer concurred, kicking it up a notch: In introducing Chasnoff…
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News SHKENAZIM EMBRACE SEPHARDIC FARE IN LATEST COOKING CRAZE
Back in the day, Sabbath meals at Rissi Zweig’s home in New Jersey consisted of gefilte fish, mayonnaise-based salads, kugels, chicken, meat, a couple of cakes and some nondairy ice cream. “And that’s just Friday night,” she said. But such artery-clogging decadence is so last decade. Now, “We try to model our home after the…
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News Libeskind’s WTC Vision Was Born of Socialist Bronx
As a young man living in the Amalgamated Houses in the Bronx, Daniel Libeskind — the architect selected this week to rebuild the World Trade Center site — recalls being immersed in an environment in which progressive politics, Yiddish literary debates and a community spirit thrived. “It shaped me completely,” Libeskind told the Forward. It’s…
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News Jewish Military Families Finding A Virtual Home On ‘The Brave’
For Judy Ledger, an administrator at an Atlanta synagogue, the bumper stickers on her Honda SUV speak a thousand words. On one side, a sticker proclaims — in Hebrew — her love of nature. On the other, she proudly declares “My Son is in the Army,” “My Daughter is in the Army” and, simply, “Go…
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News When Empty Nesters Go Looking for God
Growing up in Birmingham, Ala., Gennye Feldman, along with her mother and her four siblings, kept kosher, ate Sabbath dinner on Fridays and drove to services at their Conservative synagogue every weekend. “Judaism was definitely a core part of our family values,” Gennye, a 28-year-old marketing manager, told the Forward. Now a young adult living…
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News Unflippable Lawyer Bites Mickey D’s With Burger Suit
At times it seemed as if the entire McWorld was against Samuel Hirsch. The Manhattan lawyer catapulted to infamy last summer as he spearheaded a class-action lawsuit against McDonald’s on behalf of obese teenagers. As the latest player in the assign-the-blame-game, Hirsch became the brunt of late-night talk show jokes and a poster boy for…
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