Ann Levin
By Ann Levin
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Culture Haunted by the Kindertransport and COVID-19, this 95-year-old Jewish writer chronicles a changing world — over lunch
Lore Segal's latest collection, 'Ladies' Lunch,' follows a quirky (and cranky) group of aging New Yorkers through four decades of get-togethers
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The Schmooze A Crisis of Conscience: Gideon Shimoni on South African Jewry During Apartheid
The last thing you might expect at a scholarly lecture on the Jewish experience in apartheid South Africa is suspense. But there it was. Gideon Shimoni, a professor emeritus at The Hebrew University and the author of “Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South Africa,” spoke at New York’s Jewish Museum on May 13…
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Culture Life and Times of ‘a Jewish Saint’
When Joe Lieberman’s 2000 vice presidential bid raised prospects of a Jew in the White House, some American Jews could have been forgiven for thinking they’d been there, done that. For 100 years earlier came a president they had already embraced as one of their own: Abraham Lincoln. The special bond that Jews feel for…
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