Anthony Weiss
By Anthony Weiss
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News For the Wise and Otherwise
If, as the Haggadah tells us, there are four types of children — wise, wicked, simple and oblivious — then there are two types of Passover children’s books. There are simple books, which give a straight rendition of the Passover story. These usually revolve around a family with an inquisitive child who does not know…
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Israel News In Scotland, a Jewish Principal Is Hard To Find
A new head teacher is roaming the halls of Calderwood Lodge, the only Jewish primary school in Scotland. And though he has taken to wearing a yarmulke, the head teacher is not Jewish. Last week, Jim Duffy took over as the acting head at the Calderwood Lodge school in East Renfrewshire, a suburb of Glasgow….
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News Arsonists Attack Holocaust Archive in Texas
Arsonists struck a building near Texas’s San Antonio Airport that houses the Holocaust History Project, a Web-based archive of documents related to the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis. The fire destroyed 2,000 books related to the Holocaust, a number of backup servers and a pair of military uniforms worn by a judge at the Dachau…
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News In Academia, Yiddish Is Seen, But Not Heard
If Yiddish has a future on college campuses, it may literally go unspoken. In Yiddish studies programs across the country, a new generation of scholars are learning Yiddish as a language of scholarship, but many of them never master Yiddish as a language of conversation. This was in evidence at a graduate student conference on…
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News Exploring Poetry’s Feminine Side
Barnett Zumoff sat and peered through thick-rimmed bifocals at his latest book, “Songs to a Moonstruck Lady: Women in Yiddish Poetry,” as he flipped through the pages, trying to find a favorite poem. He already had found and read aloud two favorite poems — he has, he confessed, a lot of favorites — but he…
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Israel News A Jew on Mars?
When Jason Sherwin told his parents he wanted to be an astronaut, they weren’t thrilled. Jews, they reminded him, “don’t have a good track record” in outer space. Notwithstanding the “Jews in Space” bit from Mel Brooks’s “History of the World: Part I,” they’re right. Arguably, the first Jewish astronaut was Elijah. According to the…
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Israel News Swinging into Canada’s Baseball Pantheon
On Tuesday, March 7, Adam Stern was a well-regarded prospect for the Boston Red Sox. On the disabled list in the middle of the 2005 season, he had a decent but far-from-certain shot at a permanent berth as a back-up outfielder in 2006. By Thursday, March 9, Stern was Canadian national hero. In between, the…
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Israel News Geraldo Rivera, Member of Knesset?
Though it went unreported when it happened a few years ago, veteran news personality Geraldo Rivera was only a hairsbreadth away from moving to Israel and pursuing a political career there. According to a recent interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, the mustachioed muckraker was all set to go; he even started looking for an apartment….
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