Allison Good
By Allison Good
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News A Jew on the Trail of Tears
I was sitting in a restaurant, having lunch with my family in Macon, Ga., when my great-uncle Herbert, a genealogist by hobby, proceeded to retell our family history. I had heard it many times before, but this time there was a twist. I had always thought that everyone on both sides of my family was…
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Culture Finding Vibrant Remnants of Jewish Life
When photographer Joshua Cogan traveled to Cochin, India, and northern Ethiopia in search of lost Jewish communities, he was not interested in approaching his subjects as symbols of decay and decline. “Every six months you’ll find articles that say, this is the last minyan, or this is the last Shabbos; but it’s never the last,…
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News The Big Easy’s Big Jewish Comeback
Laura Taishoff never intended to stay in New Orleans beyond her year with Avodah, the national Jewish service corps. “I decided to stay because I felt really comfortable here,” the Katonah, N.Y., native said. “I felt like I was developing here Jewishly more than I ever had anywhere else, and I knew that I had…
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דער שרײַבער ברוך האַגער איז צווישן די זעלטענע שרײַבער, וואָס גיבן זיך אָפּ מיט דער שפּראַך פֿון דער חסידישער מעשׂה אויף ייִדיש.
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Yiddish ייִדיש האָט אַ לאַנגע רשימה ווערטער פֿאַר „בית־עולם“ Yiddish has a long list of words for ‘cemetery‘
אויף לשון־קודש קען „עולם“ באַטײַטן „אייביקייט“. הייסט אַ בית־עולם דאָס אָרט, וווּ מע בלײַבט אויף אייביק.
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Fast Forward IHOP denies inviting Florida GOP candidate who said ‘Americans shouldn’t die for Israel’
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Yiddish וואָס ייִדישע אימיגראַנטן האָבן אַנטדעקט וועגן ליבעWhat immigrant Jews learned about love
אין דער גאָלדענער מדינה האָבן די שידוך־מינהגים פֿון דער אַלטער היים אויסגעזען מאָדנע, און אַפֿילו אַנטי־דעמאָקראַטיש
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