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There was no red carpet. There wasn’t even a blue-and-white carpet. But a week before “The Artist” walked away with best film honors at the Oscars, Ohio’s Columbus Torah Academy and Atlanta’s Weber Jewish Community High School took home top honors in the Academy Awards. The Jewish Day School Video Academy Awards, that is. Six […]

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World competitive eating champion Takeru Kobayashi has won awards for downing copious amounts of hot dogs, meatballs, Twinkies, hamburgers and pasta. Last week, with Purim coming up, he tried his hand at hamantashen. Actually, both hands. Kobayashi, winner of the Nathan’s Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest an unprecedented six times in a row and the […]

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It may be refreshing for Francine Klagsbrun (“Synagogues Should Be More Welcoming,” Opinion, Jan. 13) to learn that our Orthodox shul, the Young Israel of Stamford, Conn., has been offering “free seating” to all for the High Holidays since the synagogue’s founding in 1979. This inclusion of Jews of all stripes to be a part […]

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