David B. Green
By David B. Green
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Fast Forward Remembering Stuart Schoffman, journalist, screenwriter, translator and mensch
This article originally appeared in Haaretz, and was reprinted here with permission. Journalist, historian, screenwriter and translator Stuart Schoffman died Sunday at his home in Jerusalem, at age 74. In recent years, Schoffman worked principally as a literary translator, rendering into English books by the Israeli writers A.B. Yehoshua, David Grossman and Aharon Appelfeld (among…
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Israel News Israeli kibbutz changes its name to honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg
When I was studying Hebrew and working at Kibbutz Ramat Hashofet, back in 1977, I was always a little envious of the volunteers down the road at Kibbutz Ein Hashofet, southeast of Haifa. Kibbutz Ramat HaShofet in israel is renaming itself for a week in honor of #RuthBaderGinsburg. Meaning “heights of the judge, the kibbutz…
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Culture The Jewish Inventor of the Bra
(Haaretz) — January 9, 1886, is the birthdate of Ida Cohen Rosenthal, the co-founder of Maidenform, today the world’s largest manufacturer of “shapewear.” She was born Ida Kaganovich (she anglicized her maiden name to “Cohen” after coming to the United States) in the town of Rakaw, in what is today Belarus. Her father, Abraham Kaganovich, was…
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Books ‘Obama’s Secrets’ at the Jerusalem Book Fair
Crossposted from Haaretz The Jerusalem Book Fair may be the only place where you can get from Russia to India via Angola. With a maze of stands representing publishers both local and foreign (this is Angola’s first showing at the biennial convention) you’ll need a GPS to find your way around, or at least a…
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