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

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Musical Memorial to Prewar Book Burning

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Baumbach in a New York State of Mind

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Another U.S.-Israel Connection: Barbecue!

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David Broza: This Concert Will Be Good

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You Go, Grill!

Putting the kosher into the meat

By:

Ethel Hofman, JE Feature

They traveled by van, car and pickup. From Brooklyn, N.Y.; East Orange, N.J.; and Northeast Philadelphia. The venue? Hava NaGrilla, the kosher barbecue contest held at the Willow Grove Day Camp in Hatboro. It was a day of entertainment, music and food -- lots of it. Sponsored by the philanthropic Golden Slipper Club, the funds are used to send underprivileged...

Food

A Rerun of 'Lost'? She Can Help!

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Eileen Goltz, JE Feature

Every couple of weeks or so, I get a "recipe 911." These "emergency" e-mails, phone calls, letters -- and I kid you not, the occasional knocking on my front door -- consist of pleas to help recover a lost recipe, fix a broken one, or coax the ingredients out of a reluctant chef or restaurant. While for the most part...

Film & Television

Ready for Antony Sher's 'Primo' Time

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Michael Elkin

From Sir, with lucidity. Such is the towering treat of the performance of Sir Antony Sher in the title role of "Primo," the film version of the one-man play of a thousand emotions lived through by Primo Levi, hero/survivor of Auschwitz, whose If This Is a Man couldn't have been played better by any other man than Sher. Any doubts,...

Film & Television

Father Confessor

For Philadelphia's Chuck Barris, Sunday's no holiday

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Michael Elkin

He is the father of modern-day reality-game shows, but when it came to the rules of real parenthood, Chuck Barris concedes, as a father, he didn't know best. It is all a moving admission from the man whose "Newlywed Game" and "Dating Game" were game for gotcha TV for many, but who, away from the hot lights of his "The...

Arts

She Loves Lucy -- and Kate Monster!

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Michael Elkin

Why's a nice Jewish girl "slumming" playing Lucy the Slut? It's all in a day's -- and night's -- work, insists Jacqueline Grabois, whose handiwork includes manipulating anything-but-pedestrian puppets in "Avenue Q," the street theater of a different sort that took home the Tony Award as best musical on Broadway in 2004, and continues its raucously funny road tour this...