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In some places, women who gain a few pounds lose their beauty pageant title. In Israel, only the hefty need apply for one beauty title The annual Miss Large competition took place recently in Beersheba, and Vered Fisher, center, a former member of an intelligence unit in the Israeli Army, was declared the winner. She […]

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I’m convinced. Mel Gibson should not play Judah Maccabee (“Mel Gibson and Judah Maccabee? Not a Good Mix,” Opinion, May 25). In fact, Gibson should crawl into some dark hole, never to be heard from again. But in making his hardly controversial point about Gibson, why does the author of the piece go out of […]

Anthony Pisciotta is one of Bayside Cemetery’s most dedicated — and seemingly most unlikely — volunteers. He lives 15 miles away, has no family buried there and is not even Jewish. Yet over the past three years the 40-year-old Pisciotta, who works for the Bridge and Tunnel Authority and is a married father of two, […]

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