Monthly Archives: February 2013

Mixed Marriage

February 26, 2013 – 9:18 pm

There is nothing in the Torah against Hassidim marrying other ethnicities, but I can’t think of a single case of them marrying outside their religion. There’s always a first time, because in the end love is blind. PHOTO by James Velaise

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$600/Month

February 26, 2013 – 9:11 pm

Last week an Hezbollah operative was put on trial in Cyprus for tracking Arkia Israeli Airlines, a charter carrier with Tel Aviv as its hub. Police and investigators have accused Hossam Yaacoub of targeting these flights for possible attack, however the 24 year-old Lebanese argued that he was a pawn in a much bigger game […]

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Nightstalking Bed-Stuy

February 24, 2013 – 4:51 pm

Friday night I attended a Protest Art opening curated by Richard Beavers at his House of Art Gallery. Its location was not in Midtown, Chelsea, Soho, or the Lower East Side, but at 408 Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyesant, a Brooklyn neighborhood for its famed motto ‘Bed-Stuy, do or die’. Little Harlem fell on hard […]

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Neigh For Horses

February 24, 2013 – 2:17 pm

Horses have been worshipped by Man, but also hunted as a food source since the Paleolithic Era. Upon my arrival in Paris I was surprised by the number of butchers offering ‘cheval’, which has been a part of the French culinary history since the Revolution. The Haute Bourgeoisie regarded horse as a meal for the […]

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Donnie Ward of the 1270

February 23, 2013 – 10:13 pm

The 1270s was a decade of turmoil throughout the known world of the Christians, Muslims, and Mongols, but the number 1270 for members of Boston’s gay community was revered, for the city’s best dance nightclub was the 1270 on Boylston Street near Fenway Park. I was introduced to the duplex of disco by a passenger […]

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