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EST 1917

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This Chuck Hagel business is weird. I’m not certain he’s President Obama’s first pick for the secretary of defense job. I have heard, at certain junctures, that he is; Now, there’s suggestive evidence that, as this New Republic piece posits, it’s Michele Flournoy. But all manners of wars are playing out over his purported frontrunnerness: […]

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Coney Island — home of legendary knishes, Nathan’s Famous Hotdogs, and that historic roller coaster — is rich with Jewish spirit. A similar thing could be said of the Brooklyn band The Shondes, who so identify with the oceanfront Brooklyn district that they recorded a paean to it for their album, “Searchlights.” (Check out track 9, “Coney Island […]

Some comedy bits never get old. One of them, Abbot & Costello’s hilarious baseball/word play bit “Who’s On First” from the 1940s, is still one of the funniest and most remembered of all time. Last week, the bit got an update with courtesy of Jimmy Fallon, who recreated the famous scene from the 1945 film “The Naughty […]

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