Max Gross
By Max Gross
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News Meet David Wise, the Grandma You Never Knew
David Wise sort of looks like your mother. He talks like some long-lost Eastern European relative. And he bakes like your grandmother. Dressed as “Sarah Grabel” in a blue dress and flower-print apron — modeled on, and named for, his own great-grandmother — Wise makes knishes with his “audience,” taking them back to her kitchen,…
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News ‘Shalom,’ With a Brogue: Irish Jews Face the Future
Jean Reuben doesn’t quite know how to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. It’s usually not an issue for someone like Reuben, an Orthodox Jew, since Jews don’t typically commemorate Catholic saints. But Reuben is also of Irish descent; her mother was from Belfast, her father from Dublin. Although she left Ireland long ago, Reuben has fond…
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Israel News Saddam Impersonator Dusts Off His Black Beret
Years before Saddam Hussein was captured in a “spider hole,” a man who looked exactly like Saddam was captured — on film. Complete with a mustache, black beret and the name “Saddam” embroidered on his shirt, he was handing a pair of golden bowling shoes to actor Jeff Bridges in a Los Angeles bowling alley….
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News Between a Cross and a Hard Place
Like other Jewish leaders, Mitch Glaser will not be attending a special pre-screening of Mel Gibson’s controversial new film, “The Passion of the Christ.” Unlike them, however, he has at least been invited to one. That’s because Glaser is an unusual Jewish leader: He is the president of Chosen People Ministries, one of the many…
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News Jon Stewart’s Cronies Stand Up for Atzum
Before agreeing to perform at next Monday’s “Up We Stand” benefit for the Israeli charity Atzum, the chasidic reggae artist Matisyahu hesitated. He usually asks his rabbi for permission before performances. For those pious people who may be wondering: Is it okay to laugh it up for Israel? Don’t worry about it. It’s for a…
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News Professor Waxes Philosophical on Online Intimacy
In the course of researching his new book about cyber sex and online relationships, Haifa University philosophy professor Aaron Ben-Ze’ev came across a couple who had reached an unusual understanding. The husband discovered that his wife was having cyber affairs. She and her virtual partners would exchange amorous (and sexually explicit) messages on the Internet,…
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Israel News A Box Full of Bad Luck: Haunted Wine Cabinet Goes to Highest Bidder
The Internet auction house eBay recently added a new item among the steak knives and vacuum cleaners normally up for sale: a dybbuk-haunted wine cabinet. Earlier this week, a small wooden wine cabinet with the Shema, the Hebrew prayer, carved on the inside was auctioned off on eBay. The cabinet might have looked like hundreds…
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Israel News Playwright Examines Mae West’s Legal Dramas
She was the queen of innuendo. With her slinky walk, hourglass figure and sassy turn of phrase, Mae West was once Broadway’s and Hollywood’s grandest sex icon. She was also among the most persecuted. The New York police department raided the platinum blonde’s shows, threw her in jail and leveled tremendous fines against her. Why?…
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