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…Opinion A MIX OF IDEAS Dry R —ones Editorials are posted and archived on JNonline.us. George Cantor's Reality Check column will return next week. Ye= Editorial Terrorists Are Terrorists! E ach time a violent incident such as the one at Fort Hood, Texas, occurs these days, a strange new ritual unfolds. If it involves a Muslim, those in authority practically trample each other in the rush to cameras and microphones to reassure us that th...…
…Left, Right And The Jews I n the 1950s, the late social commen- tator Milton Himmelfarb observed, "Jews earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans." Some 60 years later, not much has changed and the question is why. Norman Podhoretz, the former editor of Commentary, gives us his answer in his book, Why Are Jews Liberal? The analysis comes from an intellectual who was a member of the New Left that was much more radical than tradition...…
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…A Feast Fit For Royalty ENE ism El Britain's "Jewish Princesses" share Chanukah recipes from their newest book. PRODUCED BY LYNNE KONSTANTIN I ILLUSTRATIONS BY KAREN GREENBERG the Jewish prince feasts gc, fesdvals Georgie Tarn &. Tracey Fine When 9-year-olds Tracey Fine and Georgie Tarn first met while vacationing with their families at the Grand Hotel in Rimini, Italy (considered the "Catskills of Europe"), the British girls hit it off ...…
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…Arts & Entertainment 'Oh, What A Ride!' As Jersey Boys comes to the Fisher Theatre, a Jewish member of the 1970s Four Seasons picks up where the play leaves off. including Shapiro. Their 1975 Warner Bros. album Who Loves You contained two soon-to-be classic hits, the title song (which hit No. 3) and the No. 1 smash "December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)." "I was driving in Paramus, N.J., when I first heard 'Who Loves You' on the air:' said Shapi...…
…Photo by Joan Marc us Arts & Entertainment What A Ride from page 45 all over the world. In an ironic reversal of the Beatles' "British Invasion" that overwhelmed American musical acts a decade before, both Valli and the Four Seasons achieved near-cult status in the U.K. in the mid-1970s. They were swept up in Scotland and northern England's "Northern Soul" movement — where obscure American R&B records with an early-Motown sound were all the...…
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