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Eat Your Words

Good thing I'm nearly done with higher education--because the GREs just got harder. The good people at Merriam-Webster have introduced around 100 new words into the latest edition of their dictionary. My fav...
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Daniel Libeskind: The _Heeb_ Interview

by Amy Westervelt Polish-born, New York-based architect Daniel Libeskind first came to the attention of the architecture world when his Jewish museum in Berlin was unveiled in September 2001. Coincidentally, th...
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“Please Sir, Kug I Have Some More?”

Yiddishkayt LA recently hosted their second Kugl Kukh-off. The contest was judged by LA Weekly food critic Jonathan Gold, restauranteur and KCRW's "Good Food" host Evan Kleiman (don't miss her Angeli ...
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Crown Princesses

Back in 2006, Juive au jus Alexandra Rosenfeld won Miss France and went on to take Miss Europe. As is usually the case, it takes a little while for French fashions to make their way across the Channel, but th...

Khaled: The Heeb Interview

This piece was originally published in April, 2008. For the most part DJ Khaled doesn't actually make the music on his solo albums; the Miami radio personality farms the brunt of that work out to superst...
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SXSW Recap, Part III

I know I promised to post this final installment yesterday, but SXSW is an exhausting enough experience that it genuinely affects the productivity of the whole following week. Frankly put, four days of constant...