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The Flops of All Seasons

Why so many shows never seemed to make it out of the starting gate

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Robert Leiter

SPEAKING VOLUMES I remember how, in 1963, my father decided that my sports-mad older brother needed to be introduced to some culture. What was his proposed cure for this young teen's basketball monomania? The old man had purchased a clutch of tickets for a musical then trying out in Center City before it headed for Broadway. As I recall it,...

Food

Get Set for the Seven Species

t's Tu B'Shevat -- make a seder!

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Eileen Goltz, Jewish Exponent Feature

SLICE OF LIFE Battle stations, it's time to get ready for the seder. Get the Hagaddah, matzah -- wait; we don't need matzah for a Tu B'Shevat seder. This fun, educational and not-five-hour-long seder involves eating and enjoying the fruits native to the Land of Israel. During the seder, it's typical to serve four different kinds (glasses) of wine, and...

Books

Local Professor Garners Jewish Book Award

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JTA

David B. Ruderman, director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, has won a National Jewish Book Award for "Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History," published by Princeton University Press. Ruderman, who also teaches Modern Jewish History at UPenn, won in the category of History. The 2010 awards, announced Tuesday, are given out annually...

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From Daughter to Dad, With Love

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Ethel Hofman, Jewish Exponent Feature

THE JEWISH KITCHEN It's a small spiral notebook, the kind that you can find in any store. On the soft cover is a color photograph of a biker in front of a garden bright with summer flowers; the title: Recipes for Rothschild: Battling Cancer One Meal at a Time . What makes it so exceptional is that the healthy-looking biker...

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The Sun in the Firmament

Franklin Roosevelt, 'his Jews' and the tragedy of the Holocaust

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Robert Leiter

When I interviewed Samuel G. Freedman back in 1996 about his book The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved From Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond , he relayed an anecdote that has stayed with me. He spoke of his Uncle Seymour's Bar Mitzvah ceremony, and how family lore had it that, as his uncle carried the Torah around the...