Max Gross
By Max Gross
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News Bye-Bye, Bagels: Finicky Fans Flip for Flagels
A 65-year-old regular at Montague Street Bagels — a Brooklyn Heights temple to the traditional treat — stepped up to the counter one chilly December morning. “Three flagels,” said the customer. The long line of patrons behind him suddenly perked up. “What’s a flagel?” erupted a chorus of eager Brooklyn Heights residents. Not as doughy…
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News Here She Comes To Save the Day…Unless it’s Saturday
Talk about Aishes Chayil. The time has come to usher in a very different sort of Shabbat Queen — literally, “Shabbas Queen,” a new superhero who wields a golden wand with a Star of David affixed at the top that gives her the power to lift heavy objects and fly, apparently unencumbered by her full-length…
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News Oh Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel + 710 = A New Record
The University of Maryland suffered a bitter defeat this weekend — no matter how you spin it. One of the student body’s proudest achievements was shattered in a crushing rout by a rival. It wasn’t a basketball or football championship game that they lost. It was the “Dreidel Cup.” On Sunday, the Helene G. Simon…
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News Anti-Sharon Political Cartoon Denounced
A certain British society thinks antisemitism is comic — or at least cartoonish. A collection of 300 political cartoonists from newspapers throughout Great Britain are being accused of antisemitism for awarding a controversial cartoon of the Israeli prime minister first prize in their annual competition. The cartoon in question portrays a ravenous Sharon — clad…
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News Behind Every Successful Indian Hotel Owner…
Not too long ago there was a story circulating around the Asian American Hotel Owners Association that a petition would be launched to change its president’s name. There are approximately 8,400 AAHOA members, all of them Indian or Indian American. And many of them said, albeit in jest, that their president should have a more…
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News Wisconsin Hillel’s Saposnik, Pioneer of Jewish Literature
Irving S. Saposnik, a former executive director of Hillel at the University of Wisconsin and one of the pioneer professors who brought the study of American Jewish literature into American higher education, died November 20 after a 13-month struggle with brain cancer. He was 67. Saposnik was still teaching a course, titled “Yiddish Literature in…
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News Magazine’s Name Stirs Memories for Survivors
Marc S. Klein is trying to save the letter “j.” In September, Klein, the editor of the Jewish Bulletin of Northern California, decided to give his 107-year-old newspaper a makeover: The tabloid-sized journal was turned into a glossy magazine; humor columns were added; features were expanded, and hard-news items were toned down. And — in…
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News The Story Behind the Story
The new Walt Disney Concert Hall has an interesting history, one that traces an arc from the “polite” antisemitism of Los Angeles’s postwar Wasp elite to today’s open, mutually beneficial relationship between the city’s cultural institutions and its Jewish community. The story began in the 1950s, when the Chandler family, which owned the Los Angeles…
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