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The Gateway (Holiday Left-overs From a Centrist Edition)
"The Dream is to raise the image of Sephardic Jews."
They really are dreaming.
Sephardim trying to raise their image by sending a check to "American Friends of Shas" (or the Shas Party in Israel) would be like LGBT Jews trying to raise their image by sending a check to "Friends of Carl Kruger."
Yaacov Schapiro's purported candidacy for State Senate is about as real as the Cody McCone for Congress boomlet–and he pretty much admits he's ready to back Lew Fidler from the get go. Twittertwitter.com
As someone named for a blues guitarist, it shames me to admit that a recent column with an item summing up recent deaths of significance forgot to list Howlin Wolf's great guitarist Hubert Sumlin (who I last encountered not so long ago backing up David Johansen doing a very convincing Wolf imitation).