Britta Lokting
By Britta Lokting
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News How Eruv Fight Is Setting Secular Jews Against Orthodox in the Summer Paradise of the Hamptons
For six years, the Jews of the Hamptons have gone head-to-head over a piece of wire they can barely see. The Orthodox finally won the right to erect the eruv, a wire that allows Orthodox Jews to travel on the Sabbath because they consider it as an extension of the home, in the tony towns…
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Life Orthodox Boxer Yuri Foreman’s Secrets of Success
I stood in a boxing ring at Gleason’s Gym in Brooklyn’s Dumbo, opposite Yuri Foreman, the onetime World Boxing Association super welterweight world champion. My left leg was forward; my knees were bent in a “boxing stance.” “One, two, slip, right upper jab, left hook,” Foreman directed, and I began the sequence, having learned what…
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The Schmooze Famous Hitler Doll Sparks Controversy After Christie’s Sale
Last week, Christie’s auctioned off a well-known, but controversial 2001 sculpture by Maurizio Cattelan called “Him” for $17.2 million to an anonymous bidder, a record sale for Cattelan. The sculpture depicts Hitler kneeling with his hands clasped by his navel Viewers are meant to approach the sculpture from behind, so that the figure might first…
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The Schmooze A Forgotten Suitcase of Secrets Is Reunited With Its Jewish Owner’s Family
Seven years ago, Charlaine Scholten, the tenant of an apartment building on Beethovenstraat in Amsterdam, found a worn, yet intact suitcase in a cupboard that contained old photographs, postcards, oil paintings and newspaper clippings. The suitcase remained untouched for six years, when Scholten stumbled upon it again in the attic and decided to inspect it…
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The Schmooze Jewish Actors and Writers Score Big in Tony Award Nominations
It was a good year for Jews in theater as indicated by the just-released 2016 Tony Award nominations. Though “Hamilton” swept a record-breaking 16 nominations, Jewish plays and actors earned several notable nominations, including “Fiddler on the Roof” and two Arthur Miller plays. “Fiddler” was nominated for Best Revival of a Musical and both “The…
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Film & TV Film About Streit’s Debuts As The Factory Is Demolished
Last spring when Michael Levine, the filmmaker of “Streit’s: Matzo and the American Dream” was in the final days of editing and had already shipped a copy off to film festivals, he received word from the Streit family that the factory he had been documenting over the past two years was closing and moving to…
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The Schmooze Lisa Moses Leff Wins Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
The Jewish Book Council named Lisa Moses Leff as the winner of the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her book Leff received a $100,000 prize. The runner-up Choice Award went to Yehudah Mirksy, who wrote Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution and took home $25,000. The other finalists were Dan…
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Culture Why Anti-Semitic Propaganda Seems Oddly Relevant Today
Given the vitriolic speech surrounding the current presidential campaign, the “Anti-Semitism 1919-1939” exhibit at The New York Historical Society that opened April 11, seems ominously well timed. “You can’t accept this as a fringe area,” said Kenneth Rendell, the founder and director of The Museum of World War II in Boston, who curated the exhibit,…
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