Rachel Delia Benaim
By Rachel Delia Benaim
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The Schmooze Lauren Bacall’s Swank Apartment Hits Market — For $26M
Getting tired of your windowless closet, better known as a New York apartment? Or maybe you’ve decided to give your roommate — or uninvited guests (mice I’m looking at you) — some space and are on the market for a new home. Well, if you have a spare $26 million to drop on a new…
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Food Meet New York City’s Youngest Kosher Baker
Nechamit Rosen’s kosher cupcakes. Photograph courtesy of Nechamit Rosen These days, a lot of women are talking about the importance of “leaning in,” but Nechamit Rosen, head pastry chef at the Kosher Marketplace, a kosher goods staple on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, knew how to do that before she picked up Sheryl Sanberg’s bestseller. Two…
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Opinion My Sephardic Guilt on Kristallnacht
Postcard of Madeira While other Jewish families suffered unimaginable brutality in the Holocaust, my family lived like royalty in the Portuguese paradise known for its wine, Madeira. I know: I sound like an entitled, unsympathetic brat. And what I’m trying to say is, I feel guilty about this. I always have. Every time a Holocaust…
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The Schmooze Ben Stein Calls Obama ‘Most Racist President’ Ever
Anyone? Anyone? In a (sadly) non “Ferris Bueller”-related interview with Fox News, economist and author Ben Stein called President Obama the most racist president ever. “He is purposely trying to use race to divide America,” Stein told Fox news. Stein was on to discuss the main issue on voters’ minds today: the economy. A Fox…
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Music At 97, Holocaust Survivor Plays Lincoln Center
97-year-old Emily Kessler shows off her mandolin technique / Courtesy When Emily Kessler escaped the Nazis, she stopped enjoying the music she used to sing with her parents in pre-war Ukraine. But after 40 years, Kessler finally returned to the songs she loved so much. Since then, she hasn’t stopped. Now, this 97-year-old Holocaust survivor…
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Opinion That Time Yehuda Glick Was My Tour Guide
Rabbi Yehuda Glick / Tumblr The first time I met Rabbi Yehuda Glick, I thought he seemed completely normal. I never would have thought to call him a right-wing extremist, as many reports are doing nowadays. And I certainly never would have dreamed that a few years later he would be the target of an…
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Culture 8 Facts About Jewish Missouri
1. Approximately 59,000 Jews live in Missouri. 2. Mark Twain’s relationship with Jews in Missouri was complicated. The Levys were the only Jewish family in his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. As a kid, Twain joined other kids in his community in hazing the Levy kids. Only later in life did he become something of a…
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Food Bench Pressing the Bottle
Photograph by Marcus Lam; Flickr Ever heard the conjecture that calories don’t count on Jewish holidays? It’s crazy, we know, but the more I think about it, there might be some modicum of truth to it. By now we’ve all heard about studies showing that red wine contains resveratrol, a chemical compound naturally produced by…
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