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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

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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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Senate: The Ultimate Comedy Club?

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Michael Elkin

In the almost comically contentious Minnesota election between Norm Coleman and Al Franken for a seat in the U.S. Senate, is it any wonder that the joker won? Grayer and filled with gravitas now, Franken spun an intellectual-style comedy out of his Jewish Minnesota roots, where, as he told the Jewish Exponent's On the Scene while still a writer/performer for...

Food

'Filet Minyan'

Folks go -- ahem -- whole hog for the area's first kosher BBQ event

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Ethel Hofman, Jewish Exponent Feature

THE JEWISH KITCHEN Sun, blue skies, green fields shaded by leafy trees. Add to that basketball, swimming and boating on the lake -- everything for a day of family fun. What better setting for the Hava NaGrilla Kosher Barbecue contest, held recently at Willow Grove Day Camp in Hatboro? The event was the first of its kind in the Philadelphia...

Film & Television

'Dance'-Off? Watch Your Backs -- and Then Some

Marissa Jaret Winokur steps into host role on new series airing on Oxygen

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Michael Elkin

So you think you can ... diet? Cha-cha-chubbies? Give them some Oxygen -- which is exactly where "Dance Your Ass Off" is off and running -- and rumba-ing -- on Monday nights. Dancing with the svelte -- that's partially the goal of "Dance Your Ass Off" (no donkeys were harmed in this series), as a bunch of heavy-hitters whose weight...

Books

They Gave Them Their Word

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Robert Leiter

Besa, a book of portraits of Muslims who saved Jews during World War II, is dedicated to the memory of Cornell Capa, which is highly appropriate in at least two senses. One is purely photographic. The crispness and depth of the black-and-white images rendered by photographer Norman H. Gershman that fill this book echo the quality and manner that pervaded...

Film & Television

'The Philanthropist': New Millennium's 'Indiana Bond'?

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Michael Elkin

NBC ... charity case? No, not the network -- but its spectacular new series whose theme of giving back may provide great payback in ratings for the fourth-place somewhat plucked Peacock. "The Philanthropist" -- must-pledge TV? The new Wednesday night series makes the case for giving from the wallet as its billionaire belies stereotypes, trumping notions that wealth always wields...