Britta Lokting
By Britta Lokting
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Fast Forward Brandeis Study Shows Camps Want More Hebrew
A recent Brandeis University study titled “Connection, not Proficiency: Survey of Hebrew at North American Jewish Summer Camps” examines how Hebrew is incorporated into Jewish summer camps. The university polled directors across 103 camps. It is part of a larger study called “Hebrew At North American Jewish Summer Camps” that will be turned into a…
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Food Jewish Cookbooks & The Stories They Tell
During a dinner conversation a year or two ago, my father briefly alluded to a “gross” lard-like product his mother used for frying. I had forgotten the name of it until a recent walk-through of “Nourishing Tradition: Jewish Cookbooks & The Stories They Tell” at the Center for Jewish History, where a pamphlet published by…
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The Schmooze I’m Not a Jew, I Just Play One on TV (and in Movies, Too)
Kathryn Hahn, most recently of “Bad Moms,” revealed in a New York Times article that she isn’t Jewish. (What?!) She often plays Jewish characters, her husband is Jewish, and said she often gets mistaken for being Jewish herself. “Sometimes it takes an outsider to really get inside,” she said in the Times article — she…
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The Schmooze Donald Trump Demands Money Back After ‘Lipstick on a Pig’ Ghostwriter Speaks Out
Mere days after Tony Schwartz, Donald Trump’s Jewish ghostwriter, broke his silence to The New Yorker about his experience writing “The Art of the Deal,” and his assessment of Trump’s character, Trump’s campaign served Schwartz with a cease-and-desist letter. “The fact that Trump would take time out of convention week to worry about a critic…
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The Schmooze Donald Trump’s Jewish Ghost Writer Regrets Putting ‘Lipstick on a Pig’
Tony Schwartz tweeted several reminders this past year that he wrote Donald Trump’s “The Art of the Deal,” but has kept mum about revealing more, even ignoring requests for interviews, including one by me for this paper. The Jewish entrepreneur, author and founder of The Energy Project, has now decided to break that silence with…
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Culture Never-Before-Seen Diane Arbus Photos on View at the Met
The new Diane Arbus show, which opened on July 12 at the Met Breuer, feels disorienting, even dizzying, at first, but not because of the content of the photographs or the overwhelming number of them (over 100). The second floor has been set up with rows of skinny, floor-to-ceiling panels in a diagonal arrangement, which…
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Culture Susan Faludi’s Story of Her Father’s Survival and Transition
In The Darkroom By Susan Faludi Metropolitan Books 432 pages, $32 Susan Faludi hadn’t spoken with her father in 25 years when, out of the blue, he sent her an email in 2004 informing her of his sex change. At 76 he was now no longer Steven Faludi, but Stefanie Faludi. Susan Faludi picked up…
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Slideshows 7 Never-Before-Seen Photographs by Diane Arbus
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