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In the summer of 1930, a Viennese Jewish immigrant named Max Fleischer created an anthropomorphized poodle named Betty Boop. The pooch waited tables and sang in a cartoon called “Dizzy Dishes.” But Betty was destined for human greatness: Soon enough, Fleischer dropped her floppy dog ears, and added earrings and pin curls — and a […]

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A couple months ago, the world lost a truly singular talent: a man of exceptional range and kindness, a real gutte neshuma (a good soul). That man was 91-year-old Theodore Bikel: actor, singer, activist, mensch. Born in 1924 in Vienna and named after the most famous Jewish Theodore (i.e, Herzl), Bikel and his family fled to […]

The year 1970 was monumental for bell bottoms, earth-lovers, and, it turns out, the technological discoveries that would lead to the internet. On January 17 of that year, a handful of Brooklyn yeshiva students made telecommunications history by, er, “phreaking the Rebbe,” that is, broadcasting his talk to real-time listeners across the world, using a sophisticated phone-line […]

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