Moshe Morrison, Fairway’s Director of Kosher Foods. |
For kosher foodies, Fairway is a revelation. The iconic New York grocery store and specialty food market is proud to be home to a wonderful, inimitable kosher selection.
From fresh baked breads and pastries to cheeses and dairy to fragrant coffee ground on premises, Fairway's extensive array of kosher products mean you can find everything you're looking for, and discover new delicious finds while you're at it.
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Israeli scientist, Prof. Daniel Shechtman, has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced. The Academy honored Shechtman for the discovery of "quasicrystals" - patterns in atoms which were thought impossible, adding that Shechtman's discovery in 1982 had fundamentally changed the way chemists look at solid matter. Photo: Assaf Shilo/Israel Sun
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The Mossad, Israel's superbly famous intelligence agency, was shocked on 9/11. The following information is based on the excellent professional analytical autobiography of ex-Mossad head, Efraim Halevy (1998-2002). Halevy wrote, in his book, (by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London), Man in the Shadows, "Israel, on the afternoon of September 11, 2001"
I was attending a meeting chaired by Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, in the cabinet room in Jerusalem devoted to an issue concerning the Palestinian territories. I well recall that the discussion was calm and orderly when suddenly a young female soldier entered the room and handed a piece of paper to the military secretary and to the prime minister. He read it himself and then told us all in the room that there had been an attack from the air against the Twin Towers in New York.
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Efraim Halevy, Head of the Mossad between 1998-2002.
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Efraim Halevy, the former head of the Mossad (1998-2002), who was born in London in 1934, dedicated forty years of his life to that organization. Halevy defined the Mossad in his unique book as "…the unsung men and women… whose courage, devotion and professional excellence have made an indescribable and unique contribution to the security of the State of Israel and to the defense of the free world."
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Noam Semel. Israel’s Cameri Theatre is creating a theatre with a specific face. Photo: Y. Reuveni |
Noam Semel is a builder of a new empire: the Israeli Cameri Theatre. For twenty years, Semel has been the producer/manager of this public theater, a performing arts cultural institution and a leading national theater in Israel. Semel is considered by some to be a genius and has been compared to the legendary Joseph Papp. Viewing the history of this theater, which was founded by Yosef Milo ("Papo") in 1944, some may reach the conclusion that Semel has indeed established a cultural empire.
It may also be considered as an integration of Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, plus regional theater.
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2011 Celebration to Feature Events and Activities Nationwide
Cincinnati, Ohio – Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) announces details for its 2011 celebration. The main objective of JAHM, celebrated annually in May, is to raise the national consciousness regarding contributions by Jewish Americans to our country’s heritage.
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The new National Museum of American Jewish History in center city Philadelphia is located opposite the Liberty Bell Center and Independence Mall. (photo © Jeff Goldberg/Esto for Ennead Architects) |
Eddie Cantor was born Isidore Iskowitz in New York City, in 1892, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants His mother died one year after his birth, and his father died of pneumonia when Eddie Cantor was two years old, leaving him to be raised by his grandmother, Esther Kantrowitz.
Eddie inherited his grandmother’s last name, which was shortened to Kantor by a clerk at a summer camp he attended as a young boy, before finally taking on the professional name of Eddie Cantor in 1917 when he joined the Ziegfeld Follies.
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View of the renewed Israel Museum, looking up Carter Promenade from the new entry pavilions, with Anish Kapoor’s Turning the World Upside Down, Jerusalem 2010, visible in the distance.
Photo: Timothy Hursley. Image courtesy of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem |
Jerusalem, January 19, 2011 – The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, has welcomed more than half a million visitors since it inaugurated its renewed campus on July 26, 2010. In just under six months, the renewed Museum has welcomed unprecedented numbers, including first-time visitors from across the country and tourists from around the world, through an engaging program of exhibitions, guided tours, public events, and educational activities.
"Thanks to the beauty of our renewed campus and the strength of our program of exhibitions and special events, Museum attendance has reached well beyond our expectations.
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William Kentridge: Five Themes
March 4, 2011 – June 18, 2011
This major traveling survey of recent work by the renowned South African artist William Kentridge spans the 1980s to the present, with particular emphasis on projects completed since 2000. The presentation features nearly 100 works in a variety of mediums—including drawing, print, animation, theatrical design, books, and sculpture—and is structured around five primary themes that have engaged Kentridge over the course of his career, tracing the development of his subject matter from a specifically South African context to the exploration of more universal subjects.
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Zahav restaurant in Philadelphia. |
When You Go to Philly… Zahav is Calling
Many New Yorkers know that spending an amazing time in Philadelphia is easy to do. From visiting the birthplace of America to running up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum, a la Rocky, the city has much to offer. For those of you who love food, there is now a fabulous place to dine after a day of seeing the sights. It is Zahav.
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What's Up In Israel, September 03, 2010
Meir Fenigstein, an Israeli drummer - known as POOGY - at the most popular and hot Israeli musical rock band KAVERET, (Beehive) - was always a dreamer. After the dismantling of the band in 1976 he has been acting for a year at the Jerusalem CHAN Theatre, wrote a few songs for the show - but was determined to pursue a music career. He dreamed of becoming a professional musician and went to study at the famous Berkley College of Music in Boston, to be more adequate to produce another dream - an album of his own music and songs.
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"To what extent do we remain obligated to the world even when we have been expelled from it?" – Men In Dark Times, by Hannah Arendt.
This quote, which opens up Chapter 10 of Ellen Feldman’s novel, THE BOY WHO LOVED ANNE FRANK, puts forth the suggestion that those who have been made redundant or rejected by the world need not retain faith in it. This premise is firmly converse to Anne Frank’s sentiment when she stated at the end of her own diary that she still loved life and the world. Read More
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