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A Ladino Singer Rebels –– With FlamencoYasmin Levy should be a very happy woman. The Jerusalem-born singer is perhaps the most visible and popular performer of contemporary Ladino music. Critics gushed over her 2001 debut album, “Romance & Yasmin,” and well-received performances at the World of Music, Arts & Dance festivals in Singapore and Madrid in 2004 and 2005…Read more

Anything Goes In AmsterdamAs Xaviera Hollander spoke to an admiring crowd of fans, friends and former lovers at New York’s Museum of Sex recently, it was clear she hadn’t lost her ardor for spinning titillating tales of sexual dalliance and decadence.These days, however, the former Penthouse columnist and author of the best-selling tell-all book about her life as a…Read more

Anti-tax Activist Defends Holocaust ComparisonA top anti-tax activist and White House ally is standing by his comparison of proponents of the estate tax to the perpetrators of the Holocaust, while taking the analogy further and dismissing his critics as “socialists.”“The Nazis were for gun control, the Nazis were for high marginal tax rates,” said Grover Norquist in an interview…Read more

Panelists Claim New Republic Cut Their Anti-Saudi RemarksParticipants in a panel discussion sponsored by The New Republic and Saudi Arabia are claiming that their most hard-hitting criticisms of the kingdom were edited out of a transcript that appeared in the magazine.Billed as an opportunity to talk about Islam and its contemporary relationship with the West, the November 13 panel…Read more

Panelists Claim New Republic Cut Their Anti-Saudi RemarksParticipants in a panel discussion sponsored by The New Republic and Saudi Arabia are claiming that their most hard-hitting criticisms of the kingdom were edited out of a transcript that appeared in the magazine.Billed as an opportunity to talk about Islam and its contemporary relationship with the West, the November 13 panel…Read more