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Of all the singers and comedians who leapt to prominence in the early 1960s, none was more successful than Allan Sherman, whose Jewish-inflected song parodies convulsed a nation. But Sherman never succeeded at one of his greatest ambitions, which was to write a popular Broadway musical. Now comes “The Fig Leaves are Falling,” Sherman’s big […]

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Remember the old jokes that began, “A rabbi and a priest walk into a bar…?” That pairing is still more likely than bringing a chasid from Williamsburg, a Modern Orthodox accountant from Riverdale, a Russian programmer from Staten Island, a Jewish Buddhist artist from Park Slope and an intermarried realtor from Suffolk County to sit […]

After some four decades of stuffing kosher diners with spare ribs, egg rolls and General Tso’s chicken, Shang-Chai restaurant in Brooklyn closed its doors for the last time on New Year’s Day. Angie Chan, who took over the business with her husband, Alan, in 1991, blamed the economy for fewer parties and forcing more people […]

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