Daniella Wexler
By Daniella Wexler
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Culture Theater Group Makes Torah Learning Fun
Wearing a funny hat and spewing bad biblical puns, Aaron Friedman didn’t look or sound like your typical Moses as he took to the stage during a recent performance by the Bible Players theater group. “What’s the difference between an Israeli and an Israelite?” he asked fellow actor Andrew Davies, who played the part of…
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Culture Couples Aware Program Gives Rabbis Tools To Counsel Couples on Screening
When it comes to weddings, even the most secular of Jewish couples often reverts to tradition and asks a rabbi to officiate at the ceremony. So if the Jewish community needs to get an important message across to prospective parents at all levels of religious involvement, how better to convey that information than through the…
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The Schmooze Why Barbara Hammer Won’t Be Going to Jerusalem
On June 14, I reported that experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer had declined a fellowship at the American Academy in Jerusalem for “personal reasons” — the explanation given by the Foundation for Jewish Culture, which supports the AAJ. At the time, I reached out to Hammer to explain her decision. Hammer, who was then in China,…
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The Schmooze Looking Back at a History of Pseudonyms
Nom De Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms By Carmela Ciuraru Harper, 331 pages, $24.99 Writers are always looking for new ways to tell stories, and Carmela Ciuraru has found hers in “Nom De Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms.” In her latest book, Ciuraru, editor of eight poetry anthologies, chronicles the role of the…
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The Schmooze New Novel Charts a Haredi Woman’s Struggle With Identity in Pre-War Palestine
Jerusalem Maiden Talia Carner Harper Paperbacks, 464 pages, $14.99 Those craving a fix of Jewish pulp might enjoy “Jerusalem Maiden,” the latest novel by Talia Carner, women’s activist and former publisher of Savvy Women’s Magazine. Set in early 20th century Palestine during the decline of Ottoman rule, the novel follows Esther Kaminsky — a heroine…
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The Schmooze Jerusalem Gets Its Own American Academy
The American Academy in Jerusalem — newly established by the Foundation for Jewish Culture and modeled after the American academies in Rome and Berlin — will host four American artist fellows to help pioneer a cultural renaissance in the holy city. A fifth fellow, filmmaker Barbara Hammer, dropped out of the program yesterday for personal…
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The Schmooze A Most Outlandish Awards Ceremony
The Moby Awards are everything that your typical awards ceremony is not: irreverent, un-manicured, efficient, spare, and the best part? Everyone is invited. Whimsically invented to honor the best and worst book trailers — video previews that publishers use to promote their acquisitions — it’s the kind of event that doesn’t necessarily compel its presenters…
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