Alana Newhouse
By Alana Newhouse
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Life White (and Black and Read All Over) Wedding
Forward Arts & Culture contributor Shoshana Olidort spent some quality time with the Forward last month… Mazel tov!
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Life A Master Passes
Painter Joseph Solman died last week at the age of 99. In these pages last fall, Albert Fayngold penned a timely appreciation for this “fabulously gifted yet woefully underappreciated American master.”
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Life N.Y. Magazine Imagines a Warsaw Full of Zaydes, Bagel Innovators
The normally excellent bloggers over at New York Magazine’s Grub Street reach too quickly for ethnic cutesiness in a post about the everything bagel: “Are we really to believe that the world waited until 1977 for the invention of the everything bagel? Somebody’s zayde in Warsaw is going to be getting a phone call soon.”…
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Life When Barbra Gabbed With Golda
Many of you know that the Forward is privileged to have on staff an archivist of otherworldly talent named Chana Pollack, who has a bloodhound’s ability to find historical treasures. What you might not know, however, is that her mother has some talent in this area as well. Check out this clip of Barbra Streisand…
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Life A Living Lens: From Science to Art in Two Generations
Next month, the office of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer will host a show in its gallery of work by Lynda Caspe. In addition to being a respected painter and sculptor, Caspe recently wrote to inform me that she is also the granddaughter of one of the Forverts’s first science editors, Dr. Abraham Caspe. Alana…
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Life A Living Lens: The Forverts Reunited Shlomo Artzi’s Family, Too
Last week, I posted the story of how the Forverts reunited Israeli writer Nava Semel’s family. What I didn’t know then — but do now, thanks to our archivist extraordinaire, Chana Pollack — is that Semel is the sister of folk-rock star Shlomo Artzi. Chana also passed on this great video of Artzi singing in…
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Life A Living Lens: The Forverts Reunited Nava Semel’s Family
From the mailbag: I just received a note from Israeli author and journalist Nava Semel. Ms. Semel was writing to alert us to the publication of her new book, “Israisland,” but she included a story that she rightly surmised might interest me. “My American grandfather found out that his abandoned son survived the Holocaust through…
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Life A Living Lens: A Globe-Trotting Rabbi
I received a lovely note today from Dov Burt Levy, a columnist for the Jewish Journal North of Boston, who passed along the review he wrote of “A Living Lens.” Readers should, of course, peruse the whole piece, but there’s a lovely tidbit at the end that I can’t help but highlighting: Because the Jewish…
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