Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt was the Life/Features editor at the Forward. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, and Tablet, among others.
Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt
By Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt
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Life ‘Shababnikim’: A Guide To Ultra-Orthodox Society
If you’ve spent any time in Jerusalem, you’ve seen these young men before. Sometimes, they appear in the Mamilla mall, ecstatic to be out on the town. You’ll see them on the public bus, or at a ‘mehadrin‘-kosher pizza shop, wearing identical black hats and holding the ubiquitous Israeli plastic bag. Finally, the Israeli TV…
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Life Does Chabad Have An Answer To ‘The Rebbetzin Question’?
Every year, in a massive hall at a New York hotel, 3,000 women from 100 countries around the world gather for the annual conference for Chabad-Lubavitch’s female emissaries the Chabad Kinus Hashluchos banquet dinner. I’ve been to the banquet several times. Every year, I am struck by the energy in the room. The hall is…
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Life They Met In A Concentration Camp. Now, They’re Celebrating 72 Years Of Marriage.
They met in the Vichy-run Gurs concentration camp, in southwestern France. It was the winter of 1940. She was 16, he was 19. “There were many artists imprisoned in Gurs,” Hanne Liebmann reflects today, in her Queens home. “We had a cultural life there, despite the circumstances. They would organize concerts.” Hanne Hirsch had been…
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The Schmooze New York Fashion Week: The Jew-ish Edit
We’re proud to announce New York Fashion Week: The Forward Edit, curated by our very own style writer, Michelle Honig. From the days of Joseph and his multicolored coat, Jews have always had a special relationship with clothing. From design to production to modeling, from the traditional world of modest clothes and head coverings, to…
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Fast Forward International Facebook Campaign Re-Unites Owner With His Tefillin
A London-native Jewish teen lost his tefillin and tallis while traveling from Manchester to Amsterdam, forgetting to take the bag with him as he departed from the plane. Upon realizing, 17-year old Nachum Lobenstein was distraught, calling the Amsterdam airport daily for an update, but to no avail. Little did he know a Jew over…
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Life Orthodox Magazine Erases Women From Image Of Auschwitz
This past week, the popular ultra-Orthodox weekly Mishpacha published a pixelated image of women during the liberation from Auschwitz, in compliance with its graphics policy which forbids pictures of women: The image ran in the magazine’s cover story, “Twin Fates”, written by Aharon Granot, profiling one of the last-surviving Mengele twins: Irene and Rene Guttmann….
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Life A Thanksgiving Seder: Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights?
This year, some Jewish leaders are applying the Passover Seder model to the Thanksgiving dinner. Joy Levitt (executive director of the JCC of Manhattan) has compiled a Haggadah for her family Thanksgiving meal — replete with her own set of Four Questions. Her Haggadah features patriotic songs (“This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is…
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Food Is This The Fall Of The Prime Grill Empire?
It was a bizarre evening, to say the least. Last Monday night, I made a reservation at the Manhattan kosher steakhouse Prime at the Bentley, for a Thursday night dinner for 22 people — a family surprise birthday dinner for my husband. “Of course,” the hostess chirped into the phone, taking down my information. I…
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