Max Gross
By Max Gross
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News Ice Cream Mogul Aims To Give Bush His Just Desserts
Ben Cohen is determined to send George W. Bush on the Rocky Road back to Texas. The co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is no stranger to political activism. His company, which he founded along with his boyhood pal Jerry Greenfield, has a long history of raising money for environmental and social justice causes….
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News Giving ‘Seinfeld’ Fans a Taste of Reality, Kramer-style
Kenny Kramer wasn’t allowed to be himself. In the late 1980s, the stand-up comedian was living next door to Larry David, co-creator of television’s “Seinfeld,” which was then in the development stage. David saw infinite comic possibilities in his neighbor, who spent his time golfing, scheming, chomping cigars, falling head-first into money and having sex…
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News Exercising to a Rabbinic Beat
When Michael Stamler, 23, goes to the gym, he’s got a lot of tapes to choose from to get himself in the mood. “Perl,” for example. Or, if “Perl” doesn’t quite get his juices flowing, he can turn to “Viener.” If “Viener” doesn’t get him pumped, Stamler can always listen to “Krohn.” “Perl,” “Viener” and…
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Israel News Making the Very Model of a Modern Yiddish Musical
At some point, most readers have probably met a “Savoyard,” one of the ardent admirers of William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan who nickname themselves after the famous Savoy theater in London where the dynamic duo staged their famous comic operettas, “The Mikado,” “H.M.S. Pinafore” and many others. But, undoubtedly, no reader has ever met…
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News Superman in the Mirror and Other Forms of Hero Worship
Danny Fingeroth, a longtime writer for Marvel Comics, was at a comic book convention in San Diego last year when he touched a nerve in his audience. Fingeroth was reading a chapter from his new book, “Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society” (Continuum), then a work in…
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Israel News Where the Power Elite Eat, a Hostess With Chutzpah
On Passover a number of years ago, a regular diner at Elaine’s restaurant in the Yorkville section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side popped his head into the famous eatery, surprised to find it open on the Jewish holiday. The regular asked the owner, Elaine Kaufman, why her restaurant wasn’t closed. “Why is this night different…
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Israel News ‘The Passion of the Christ’ Fuels Antisemitism — on ‘South Park’
The Mel Gibson Fan Club’s president recently fielded a call from an irate viewer of “The Passion of the Christ” who disliked the movie. “Sir,” the indignant fan club president said, “apparently you don’t understand what Mel Gibson was trying to do. He was trying to express — through cinema — the horror and filthiness…
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Israel News Russian Weary But Victorious In Gefilte Fish-eating Contest
From Melville to Hemingway, man has fought a losing battle with the ocean’s great creatures. But last weekend, one Soviet-born Brooklyn resident claimed victory over the beasts of the sea — or at least over seafood. The battleground was not the Atlantic or the Pacific, but the Manhattan Beach Jewish Community Center in Brooklyn. The…
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