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At 92-years-old, Virginia “Jean” Wahab hadn’t lost any of the vitality and health she maintained throughout her life. She raised two daughters as a single mom and made a home for them in the Detroit, Michigan suburb of Oak Park. Wahab worked on her feet and didn’t retire from her job at a local family restaurant until she was 88.

Howard Rosenman is a spielmeister, a storyteller, “not anything more, not anything less.” A producer of Father of the Bride, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and, most recently, the critical favorite Call Me By Your Name, Rosenman has brought wide array of compelling films to the big screen. But the best stories he has to tell are his own.

Anti-Israel politician George Galloway was spotted having lunch at an Israeli cafe in London’s Camden Market on Thursday afternoon.

The American Library located several blocks from the Eiffel Tower on the on the Rue du Général Camou is perhaps the most American institution in Paris. The French general earned the honor of having a street named after him with a gallant performance during the Crimean war, but the American expatriate community of Paris had gathered to hear the tale of a different sort of bloody campaign. The room was packed with every variety of American living abroad, from the frumpy to the older gentlemen in blue blazers with golden buttons. Читать дальше...

The American Library located several blocks from the Eiffel Tower on the on the Rue du Général Camou is perhaps the most American institution in Paris. The French general earned the honor of having a street named after him with a gallant performance during the Crimean war, but the American expatriate community of Paris had gathered to hear the tale of a different sort of bloody campaign. The room was packed with every variety of American living abroad, from the frumpy to the older gentlemen in blue blazers with golden buttons. Читать дальше...

It’s been about a month since The Beacon School, a prestigious and liberal-minded public high school in the Hell’s Kitchen area of Manhattan, held a moment of silence in memory of 62 Palestinians killed during clashes along Israel’s border with Gaza.  The event sparked immediate controversy, with Fox News reporting that the school had “[held] a moment of silence for Hamas.” On May 16th, Hamas official Salah Bardawil claimed that some 50 of the 62 fatalities were members of the Palestinian Islamist... Читать дальше...

I was never one of those girls who dreamed about marriage. I never practiced walking down some aisle, never tried on my mother’s wedding dress. (There wasn’t much to try on—my mother had washed it herself instead of sending it to the dry cleaners. My sister, the artist Nancy Katz, immortalized it by fashioning it into a Torah cover.) I never even had a boyfriend until college, and that adventure ended almost as soon as it began, when I came out in 1971. By then, it was clear I wasn’t going to be allowed to get married even if I wanted to... Читать дальше...

This week on Unorthodox, we’re all about food and futbol.

First, fan favorite Molly Yeh calls in to tell us about her new Food Network show, Girl Meets Farm, which premieres June 24. (Here she is telling Food Network about her “favorite podcast of all time” and making us blush.)

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As double minorities, LGBT Jews are small in number but have left a profound mark on the course of history.