Gabriel Sanders
By Gabriel Sanders
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News Mamaloshn: The San Francisco Treat
Six thousand miles from Ashkenazic Jewry’s ancestral home, and a continent’s width from the home it adopted a century ago, Yiddish culture has taken root in Northern California, and — perhaps nourished by Sonoma wines, organic produce and sourdough bread — it is thriving. Headquartered in Berkeley and fueled by an unusual mix of intellectual,…
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Israel News ‘Lemony Snicket’ Creator Comes to Grips With Fame
“A Series of Unfortunate Events” is actually a series of simultaneously-occuring events: The name refers to both a bestselling series of children’s books and an Oscar-nominated movie, its author is both Lemony Snicket and Daniel Handler and, even in the actual story, a Victorian atmosphere is dotted with 20th-century artifacts: phones, cars, refrigerators. And so,…
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Israel News Jewish Meaning Seen in ‘Gates’
On Saturday, thousands of people watched as miles of orange-hued fabric were unfurled, adorning the 7,500 “Gates” that artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude had arrayed along the serpentine byways of New York City’s Central Park. To some observers, though, the launch of the art project, the largest in New York’s history, hinted at deeper and more…
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News A Rabbi Walks Into a Comedy Club — and Stays
In 1986, after 14 years of faithful service to two different congregations, Rabbi Bob Alper began feeling pulpit fatigue. “I knew something was happening when I’d be conducting services and really looking forward to the announcements,” he told the Forward. “I loved certain aspects of the rabbinate,” he said. “But there were other aspects of…
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Israel News Journalist Travels a Long, Winding Road to Tinseltown
At the start of her new book, an examination of the careers of six American filmmakers who rose to prominence in the 1990s, Sharon Waxman notes how difficult it was for her to persuade “control-conscious artists” to open up about themselves. Though no doubt more accommodating than the subjects of her book — Quentin Tarantino,…
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Culture Orthodox Union Sets Ban on Clubs For Scotch Tipplers
The Orthodox Union has called on its member congregations to eliminate from their synagogues the informal drinking circles known as Kiddush Clubs. In letters addressed to member rabbis, the O.U., which represents some 1,000 congregations, has encouraged synagogues to devote the Sabbath of February 5 to launching a Kiddush Club crackdown. The move comes as…
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Israel News Harry’s Biggest Crime? His Nazi Joke Wasn’t Funny
In the torrent of news coverage that lifted the day’s true tragedy off the front page, nearly everyone with a stake in the matter (and hundreds without one) has weighed in on the subject of Prince Harry’s “royal gaffe,” as his brief stint in the uniform of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps has come…
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Culture Columbia, JTS Mark Half a Century of Partnership
The Jewish Theological Seminary and Columbia University celebrated the 50th anniversary of their joint undergraduate program this past November, prompting administrators and students past and present to toast half a century of fruitful collaboration between Conservative Judaism’s flagship institution and New York City’s sole Ivy League school. JTS Chancellor Ismar Schorsch called the dual degree…
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