By Michael Orbach
Issue of February 19, 2010/ 6 Adar 5770
Circumcise Me, the hit off-Broadway play, will have its run at the Bleecker Street Theatre extended until May 16th.
“We’re …
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By Michael Orbach
Issue of February 19, 2010/ 6 Adar 5770
Srugim, the Israeli television phenomenon, has arrived in America.
Hailed as either the Jewish version of Friends or the Jewish …
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The Rabba Controversy
by Rabbi Heschel Billet
The recent decision of one Orthodox rabbi to ordain women with the title ‘Rabba’ has created a lively debate within Orthodox Jewish circles …
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By Sammy Steiner
Issue of February 19, 2010/ 6 Adar 5770It’s an annual event in the lead-up to Purim: rabbis and community activists sounding the alarm about out-of-control consumption of …
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Eruv Vs. Snowpocalypse
By Mayer Fertig
Issue of February 18, 2010, 6 Adar 5770The Bronx is up, the Battery is down, goes the old song, but after the record-setting snowfall last week, …
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UPDATE on March 5, 2010: Seidemann has informed The Jewish Star that he will NOT run for Congress. A story will appear in the newspaper next week, the issue of March 12, 2010.
By Michael …
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Fresh face for Albany?
By Michael Orbach
Issue of February 19, 2010/ 6 Adar 5770
Lilianna Zulunova, a 26 year-old observant Bukharian Jew from Forest Hills, wants you to vote. And then, …
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Hawks, Lady Hawks undefeated
By Michael Orbach
Issue of February 19, 2010/ 6 Adar 5770
It’s a good time to be a Hawk.
Both the boys’ and girls’ varsity basketball teams at the …
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Issue of February 12, 2010/ 28 Shvat 5770
Dara Horn is the critically acclaimed author of The World To Come, a National Jewish Book Award for Fiction recipient, and most recently All Other …
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Click here for a PDF of the Feb. 12, 2010 edition of The Jewish Star
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