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ABrooklyn woman has opened Shleppy Sheitels, a boutique that sells deliberately unattractive wigs in keeping with the original purpose of the mandate for women’s head coverings. “No pun intended,” says proprietor Yetta Flutsky, “but we’re getting back to the roots — the roots of the tradition for married Jewish women to wear a sheitel. And […]

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“It takes a village to raise a child,” says the African proverb, and in the tony village of Great Neck, New York, the family helps to match ’em up. “For me and Ilan, it worked,” says Michelle Nabavian. “Our families knew when to get involved and when to stay out.” Her uncle, Payam, was the […]

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One year ago, Libyan dictator Muammar Kaddafy’s troops were marching toward Benghazi, the unofficial capital of the Libyan rebels. Kaddafy was calling the rebels “rats,” and a 10,000-person massacre seemed inevitable. But on Purim itself, in Libya (historically part of the Persian Empire), NATO made the decision to intervene, saving the pro-democracy rebels. “Nahafoch hu”—the opposite of […]

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