Max Gross
By Max Gross
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News CELEBRATING THE ‘JOY’ OF KLEZMER
Visitors to the 20th-anniversary celebration of the klezmer band Ensemble M’chaiya (which means “a real joy” in Yiddish) can expect one thing, according to band co-founder Terran Doehrer: “A good time.” “We’re going to live up to our name,” said Doehrer, a 50-year-old guitarist. There will be singing, dancing, music and general raucousness. For the…
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News Dancers Kick Up Their Heels In Pursuit of a World Record
LAKEWOOD, N.J. — It was supposed to be one for the record books. Thousands of people from all over New Jersey descended on Sunday’s Garden State Jewish Festival in First Energy Park—home of the minor-league Blueclaws baseball team—in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records by creating the largest hora ever recorded….
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News Volunteers at Tracing Center Help Relatives Reunite
Ann Robins knows 156 different ways to spell the name “Schwartz.” As a volunteer for the Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center, Robins has gone through every permutation of that name, as well as hundreds of other names in many languages, as she searches through documents looking for information about those who survived the Holocaust…
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News AEPi Overflows With Brotherly Love
It could have been any Saturday night fraternity homecoming party — almost. Rutgers University’s football team had lost to Pittsburgh that October afternoon, but the students were still in a celebratory mood in New Brunswick, N.J. There was dancing, and booze was being swilled from large red-plastic cups. To the uninitiated, the only thing that…
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News Rap Star Takes Pro-Israel Stance
Tuesday night was Hammer time on the Tovia Singer Show. The erstwhile rap star M.C. Hammer voiced his staunch support for Israel on Singer’s New York-based radio show, which airs on Israel’s Arutz 7 radio station. Hammer (nè Stanley Kirk Burrell) spoke about the Holy Land, black-Jewish relations and the loss of his fortune in…
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News Documentary on Sumo Wrestlers Hits the (Really) Big Screen
Manny Yarbrough is big in Japan. In fact, he is big everywhere. At 6 feet 8 inches tall and 740 pounds, the 39-year-old African-American sumo wrestler is not easily mistaken for someone else walking through the streets of Tokyo, where he is a celebrity. Yarbrough is one of a handful of American sumo wrestlers that…
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News A Hebrew Homie’s Search for a Hebrew Hottie Called Lil’ Spenda
‘I’m just a Hebrew homie,” raps Jewish hip-hop artist 50 Shekel, “who likes them Hebrew hotties.” Listen up, Yiddas (loose translation: “Jewish homies”), 50 Shekel is on the lookout for a Hebrew hottie to share the mike with. Last month, the 28-year-old, Tel Aviv-born, Brooklyn-raised rapper began advertising for a sidekick, whom he plans to…
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News Author Battling Antisemitism at the Ice Rink
In March 2002, Israeli ice dancers Sergei Sakhnovsky and Galit Chait won a bronze medal at the World Figure Skating Championships in Nagano, Japan, edging out a Lithuanian pair who finished in fourth place. Within days, a petition was circulating among skaters and judges saying that the Israelis’ medal was “not justified.” “How much did…
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