Cara Greenberg
By Cara Greenberg
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Opinion Bernie Would Have Been My Zeyde’s Candidate. He’s My Children’s, Too.
I have no idea what my parents, both lifelong liberal Democrats, would have made of the current unwieldy crop of presidential candidates. But about my maternal grandfather, Max Blustein, I have no doubt. I’m certain my Zeyde, who died in 1969 when I was in college, would have been unwavering in support of Bernie Sanders,…
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News Hampton Synagogue Opens an ‘Off-Season’ Outpost in Manhattan
It’s finally here: a synagogue in New York City for people who summer in the Hamptons. Thirteen years ago in Westhampton, Rabbi Marc Schneier founded the Hampton Synagogue, a spiritual center for urbanites nestled in the well-to-do wilds of Long Island for the summer season. In what seemed like a New York minute, the synagogue…
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News Vintage Synagogues, Extravagant But Empty
A French archbishop in a synagogue, wearing a yarmulke, drinking kosher wine and singing the praises of the Torah? Believe it. It happened at an unusual book party earlier this month at France’s oldest synagogue in Carpentras. Jules Farber, an American Jewish journalist who has lived in the south of France since 1997, presented Monsignor…
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