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Thomas Friedman’s call for Michael Bloomberg to run for president is odd in that the New York Times columnist doesn’t think that the Big Apple’s mayor needs to be in it to win it. (It’s a good thing since Bloomberg himself has previously suggested that America’s not yet ready to elect “a short, Jewish billionaire […]

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Sorry ladies — Jason Segel is taken. No, it’s not Miss Piggy, or any of the other Muppets for that matter. The “Five-Year Engagement” (and before that “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”) star is dating Michelle Williams, the recent Marilyn Monroe in “My Week With Marilyn.” “I think I would very much just like to be happy,” […]

When people talk about mixed marriages, they don’t usually mean this. In Twelfth and Race, a new novel by Eric Goodman, Richard Gordon, a middle-class Jewish guy, moves to a small Kansas town and has his identity stolen–credit cards, social security card, everything. Years later, on the border between two urban neighborhoods (hence the title), he meets LaTisha, the […]

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