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By Dan Friedman

Music, namely hearing Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight,” caused Nina Rothschild to abandon her family to embrace the vulnerable, dangerous world of New York bebop in the late 1940s. A documentary made by her great-niece provides testimony to Rothschild’s influence.Read More

Jewish Communities Reach the Finnish Line

By Dan Friedman

Growing up with a Jewish father and Finnish mother led photographer Dina Kantor to capture Finland’s Jewish community in intimate portraits, such as the one at left. View her photographs and listen to the stories behind the subjects in this audio slideshow.Read More

‘Family Guy’ Jumps the Jew

By Dan Friedman

There’s a time in every American animated comedy series, it seems, when everything turns Jewish. Whether that’s Krusty the Clown (aka Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofski) finding his Jewish roots in “The Simpsons,” Kyle heading off to Mel Gibson to demand his money back in “South Park,” or the recent “Family Guy” (in the gently titled episode, “Family Goy”) in which matriarch Lois found out that her mother was a Holocaust survivor and Jewish.Read More

In the Belly of the Rhinoceros

By Dan Friedman

‘Lebanon” opens with a golden field of sunflowers gently waving in the breeze and ends with the same field with a sole, unmoving tank in it. Nothing has changed, and yet everything has changed.Read More

Hopelessly Lost on the Prairie of Existence

By Dan Friedman

From Jonah onwards, the Jews have been happy to write nebbishes into the part of divine liaison. Not for the Chosen People the luxury of a muscular charismatic leader to mediate between the Sacred and the profane. Given the choice between “Woody” Allen Konigsberg and “Terminator” Arnold Schwarzenegger, there’s barely a flicker of thought necessary.Read More


 

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