Max Gross
By Max Gross
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News Sharansky Faces Dessert Storm
Abe Greenhouse did not, at first, admit to throwing a pie at Israeli Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky. “But I will admit to shouting, ‘Am Yisrael Pie!’” Greenhouse told the Forward. Sharansky, an activist for Soviet Jewry’s right to immigrate to Israel who spent nine years languishing in Soviet prisons before he…
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News ‘Tasteless’ Hitler Wine Causing Headaches Throughout Europe
When German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries recently called a line of Italian wines “tasteless,” she wasn’t referring to the grapes. Since 1995, a winery in northern Italy called Azienda Vinicola Alessandro Lunardelli has produced a line of “historical” wines featuring images of important men of history on the label — among them, Napoleon, Che Guevara…
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News Journalist Investigates Rise of Neo-Nazi ‘Little Hitlers’
Several years ago, journalist Elinor Langer was on an airplane preparing for a lecture she was about to give about the death of Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian immigrant murdered by skinheads in Portland, Ore., in 1989. As Langer began shuffling through pictures and cartoons that the police had seized from the house of one of…
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News Lifestyle Magazines Targeted at Young Audiences Find Religion
When you spot your beau in the cafeteria, is he: A) Bullying the class nerd into “sharing” his dessert? B) Starting a food fight? C) Laughing at his table with friends? Or D) Sitting with the lonely new kid? If you answered “D,” you have “a godly guy”— at least in the opinion of Revolve,…
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News Russian Immigrants Combat Plan To Build Cell Tower
ALBANY, N.Y. — They’re environmentalists, but not exactly the kind you’d see at a Greenpeace rally. The residents of the B’nai B’rith Parkview Apartments in Albany are elderly, and about half of them are immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Stepping out into the front lobby of the apartment complex, one is as likely to…
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News Soccer Brings Israeli, Palestinian Kids Together
A visitor to the Tokyo Nisgaoka Soccer Stadium this week is likely to hear a strange mix of languages. A Palestinian child may shout, “’Urkud!” (“Run!”) An Israeli child may call for his teammate to pass the kadur (ball), while a Japanese child may put down the ball to prepare for a ko-na-kikku (corner kick)….
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News Searching for Daniel Pearl’s Killer in the Devil’s Home
Bernard-Henri Lévy, the French-Jewish philosopher and intellectual, was in Karachi for not more than an hour — riding in a taxi from the airport to his hotel — when his driver turned to him and said: “And your religion? What is your religion?” For a moment Lévy was baffled. Lévy was in Pakistan to write…
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News Egyptian Scholar Planning Lawsuit Over Exodus Gold
A prominent Egyptian legal scholar is preparing a lawsuit against Jews around the world over gold allegedly stolen in biblical times during the Jewish exodus from Egypt. Nabil Hilmy, dean of the faculty of law at Egypt’s Zagazig University, announced his plan in the Egyptian government weekly, Al-Ahram Al-Arabi, according to the Middle East Media…
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