Clara Shapiro is a contributing writer for The Harvard Crimson. She is a reporting intern in the Forward’s culture and features department.
Clara Shapiro
By Clara Shapiro
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Culture ‘If Yiddish isn’t safe at Brandeis, where is it safe?’
Brandeis planned to put its Yiddish program 'on hiatus' — until the Yiddish community spoke out.
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Theater Can a kinky new Yiddish musical resurrect a lost art — and one man who got spanked to death?
Mikhl Yashinsky's zesty 'Feast of the Seven Sinners' marries tradition and taboo, with R-rated consequences
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Fast Forward ‘Really devastating’: How vulnerable Jews will be affected by Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful, Bill’
Medicaid is the primary insurance provider for nearly two-thirds of U.S. nursing home residents
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Culture Comedian Josh Gondelman is hilarious, but not disgusting
In his comedy special 'Positive Reinforcement,' Gondelman tackles aging, novelty baked goods and antisemitism.
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Culture Like Jews of yore, huddled masses gather upon an island, yearning to breathe free and eat good food
On Governors Island, The Great Nosh reimagined the classics and provided a break from the tsuris
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Food In gentrified Manhattan, one Jewish luncheonette strives to keep the faith (except for the bacon part)
S&P, a nearly 100-year-old lunch counter, serves up sandwiches and old-school charm with none of the frills
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Culture Travels to ‘the sixth borough’ — a brief history of New York City mayors visiting Israel
NYC mayors have been visiting Israel since 1951. What have they been doing there?
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Culture That time Yiddishists met extraterrestrials a short while ago in a galaxy not far away
It was a normal summer internship at the Yiddish Book Center ... until the Jedi invaded our turf
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Yiddish די קאָרעספּאָנדענץ צווישן צוויי יונגע שרײַבערינס נאָכן חורבןThe post-Holocaust letters between two young female writers
חוה ראָזענפֿאַרב און זעניע לאַרסאָן זענען געווען נאָענטע חבֿרטעס ביז זעניע האָט פּובליקירט זייערע בריוו אין 1971.
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