Gabriel Sanders
By Gabriel Sanders
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Life Eye on the Book Review: Stubbed Out and Dressed Up
A word of praise for an oft-overlooked genre: the newspaper illustration. This past Sunday’s New York Times Book Review offered the Jewishly minded reader two especially good examples of the art — drawings that with a few quick brushstrokes manage to capture their subject’s essence. The first, accompanying Christopher Hitchens’s new book, “God is Not…
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Israel News Brian Williams, Yiddishist?
A debate over Yiddish usage broke out in our offices this week, and it was settled by an unlikely authority: “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams. The brouhaha centered on last Sunday night’s episode of HBO’s series “The Sopranos” and what seemed to some a strangely placed Yiddish locution. While engaged in conversation with the…
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Opinion At Retreat, Y.U. Rabbis Talk God
In 2005, Yeshiva University established a Center for the Jewish Future, a think tank and outreach organization seen by some as a more flexible counterweight to the university’s affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. This year, the center launched a new program that offers a glimpse into how the new unit is attempting to establish…
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Israel News Filmmaker Cries, ‘Yoo-hoo!’
Filmmaker Aviva Kempner has a theory about what makes a good sitcom. “All the best ones,” she said, “have people walking into and out of each other’s apartments: ‘Seinfeld,’ ‘Friends,’ ‘The Honeymooners,’ ‘I Love Lucy.’ And who’s the one who first developed that? A Jewish woman from New York.” Kempner, who charmed audiences with her…
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Israel News Time to Suit Up, Sandy
It was an interesting week for Jewish — and quasi-Jewish — baseball players, both present and past. On April 27, New York Mets star Shawn Green (currently sixth in National League hitting), along with teammates David Newhan, Scott Schoeneweis and Aaron Sele, reportedly paid a visit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington,…
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Culture Jewish Jesus Conference Asks, ‘Who Invited You?’
This past Sunday, the Web-based culture organization Nextbook sponsored a daylong New York conference devoted to a subject not often explored in Jewish circles: the life and legacy of Jesus Christ. The novelty of the choice came through already in the program’s impish title: “What’s He Doing Here? Jesus in Jewish Culture.” Sure, Jesus was…
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Israel News Hip-Hop Mogul Launches Lyric Crusade. Any Takers?
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons moved the Don Imus debate forward this week, with a call to the recording and broadcasting industries to “remove/bleep/delete” the words “bitch,” “ho” and “nigger.” The Shmooze caught up with Simmons to see if he is hoping to enlist Jewish groups in his new campaign. His initial response was enthusiastic. “Do…
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Culture Exploring Eastern Europe, Via America and Israel
Last month, Rutgers University staged a conference devoted to examining the ways in which the Eastern European Jewish experience has been reformulated and reimagined in Israel and in the United States. Titled “Beyond Eastern Europe,” the gathering was jointly sponsored by Rutgers’s Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life and the Hebrew University’s Nevzlin…
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