Bari Weiss
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Israel News Bari Weiss on Judaism, journalism and civil society
Journalist Bari Weiss received The Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism from the Los Angeles Press Club on October 16, 2021. Following is a transcript of her acceptance speech. “This award feels, I feel a little embarrassed, and that’s because the namesake of this award, Daniel Pearl, displayed the ultimate courage, courage…
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News Holy Hip Hop
It’s Saturday night in Jerusalem’s Talbieh neighborhood, and a crowd of 50 is gathered to hear Matt Bar rap about the Bible. The lanky Iowa City native has achieved a kind of celebrity among young Anglos in Jerusalem with his Bible Raps project, a phenomenon he’s hoping to repeat this summer when he travels to…
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Culture A Photographer’s Family Album, and Ours
For most of us, family albums are packed tight with shots of smiling relatives lined up at life-cycle events: the bris, the bar mitzvah, the wedding. Such pictures do not interest Israeli photographer Vardi Kahana, who has taken the concept of the family album and exploded it with One Family, an exhibit currently on view…
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