City Room: When the Kebab Met the Bagel
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Hey, somebody in Times Square put my Pakistani chicken meat patty on a miniature bagel. And, if that's a turnoff, then try it on a hot-dog bun. Mmmm, not bad for a buck, buck-fifty.
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Una folla esultante ha invaso le strade di Ramallah
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The Onion Picker: Carmen Basilio and Boxing in the 1950s By Gary B. Youmans, Syracuse University Press , 214 pp., $24.95
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Now the town houses a menorah workshop, and the chanukiahs have become popular with both Poles and tourists.
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BERLIN I never met Yasser Arafat, because I never wanted to meet him. Despite several invitations, I have always preferred to spend my time in places where people exchange ideas that go beyond ideology, where
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&amp;quot;You may have heard stories about cash under pillows,&amp;quot; said Islamic scholar Abdul Kadir Barkatulla, recalling a time when British Muslims preferred to keep their money in the bedroom rather than in a bank account.
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A rare Old Testament manuscript some 1,300 years old is finally on display for the first time, after making its way from a secret room in a Cairo synagogue to the hands of an American collector.
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Pearl Abraham may have broken away from Hasidism, but she writes about it with both an intimate knowledge and a striking tenderness.
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EL-BIREH, West Bank -- Nariman Yazbak and her 2-year-old daughter, Salma, left their home in the West Bank town of El Bireh last April for a routine visit to relatives in Jordan.
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Taking Questions: David Grubin, a director, writer and cinematographer working in New York City, is taking questions from City Room readers today through Jan. 23 on his three-part documentary, "The Jewish Americans.".
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Reader Partap Singh Verma got a taste of Om Shanti Om. And lunched with King Khan.
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Charlie Sobel received a rather unusual bar mitzvah gift in 1971: 14 drawings that had once decorated the set of âKinerâs Korner,â a long-running postgame interview show hosted by Ralph Kiner.
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LONDON: There's an old joke about William Shakespeare being an Arab - how else, it explains, can you account for the name, Sheikh Zubair.
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KOCHI, India -- Down a narrow, stone-paved road in a quarter known here as "Jew Town", a woman with salt-and-pepper hair was sewing glittery beads onto the rim of a Jewish prayer cap. It was just after 3 p.m. and Sarah Cohen, wearing a housedress and flip-flops, sat in the sunny doorway of her shop,...
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Trip comes two days after Paris JCC torched by anti-Semites. Will meet senior government officials and Jewish leaders. Shalom will arrive in France only two days after a Jewish Community Center was torched in eastern Paris.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Scott Simon recalls being locked up overnight on the West Bank nearly 20 years ago by a group of young Palestinian men he&#39;d just interviewed.
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Omar Minaya went to Israel last week and met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Shimon Peres, and the former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.