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A 'Magic' Premiere Fulfills Cheltenham Teen's Dying Wish

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Opening Barnes’ Doors

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Musical Memorial to Prewar Book Burning

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Baumbach in a New York State of Mind

Food

Another U.S.-Israel Connection: Barbecue!

Music

David Broza: This Concert Will Be Good

Food

The Glorious Abundance of the Israeli Breakfast

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Rivka Tal

A TASTE OF ISRAEL Ask anyone if he or she has any particularly fond culinary memories of a trip to Israel. The respondent will probably not wax with nostalgia about the sushi bars or even the falafel but, rather, the famous Israeli breakfast. This smorgasbord -- whose origins stem from the do-it-yourself kibbutz breakfast of the past -- evolved into...

Arts

Head of Penn Museum Tapped for Spot in NYC

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Deborah Hirsch

After 13 years at the helm of the University of Pennsylvania's Institute of Contemporary Art, Claudia Gould will become the next director of the 107-year-old Jewish Museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She will replace Joan Rosenbaum, who is retiring after 30 years, and will assume the new role sometime this fall, the museum recently announced. Gould, 55,...

Theater

Fringe With a Sexual Survey on Top

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Michael Elkin

Sex and the (Sister) City? It's enough to have Carrie Bradshaw say a brachah. But this isn't Sex and the Siddur, either: What's coming to the Philly Fringe Festival is an edgy offering from Philadelphia's Sister City, Tel Aviv, putting a Smiley face on sexual sensitivity and sensibility that would shake Jane Austen to her core. Smiley (How About Some...

Food

A Culinary Odyssey: From the Lower East Side to Contemporary Cuisine

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Ethel Hofman

THE JEWISH KITCHEN When I read in a recent copy of the Forward about "Pickle-ness" being prevalent again on Manhattan's Lower East Side, I was intrigued. I thought that the immigrant cuisine in an area that had been home to millions of Jewish and other immigrants had totally disappeared. Not so. A new food-tasting tour organized by the Lower East...

Food

'Rib-Sticking Fare' Makes Its Way Down the Shore

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Carin M. Smilk, JE Feature

August came and went with some unexpected surprises down the shore -- an earthquake, a hurricane and, maybe equally as groundbreaking, a glatt-kosher deli. Shalom Pita -- opened in May 2010 in Ventnor, N.J., as a kosher falafel and pizza place -- took a new turn after Tisha B'Av this year, when it went from dairy to meat. While falafel...