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The (unofficial) Jewish inaugural ball

A inaugural party featuring filmmaker Aviva Kempner, National Jewish Democratic Council executive director Ira Forman, Special Olympics chairman Tim Shriver and former New York Knick John Starks?

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Bloomberg on CNN

New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg takes to the airwaves on CNN to defend Israel—and pushes back against the anchor’s push back.

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The other Merkin speaks out on Madoff

Except for an entirely missable reference in the first sentence, it’s possible to read Daphne Merkin’s take on the Madoff affair without realizing that it was her brother, J. Ezra, who was the principal conduit between moneyed Orthodox Manhattanites and the giant Ponzi scheme Madoff was running out of his Midtown digs. Which on some level is understandable, given that her whole point is that women are virtually absent from the world of high finance, relegated to elegant set pieces that enhance the status of the men to whom they’re attached and lubricate the social machinery needed for their advancement. 

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