Jeri Zeder
By Jeri Zeder
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News How We Remember
For the longest time, Hasia R. Diner, a professor of American Jewish history at New York University, was troubled by the unexamined but widely held belief that in the aftermath of the Holocaust, American Jews did little, if anything, to memorialize the 6 million Jews murdered in Europe. So she decided to have a look…
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Books Chagall’s Political Art
Suspended in white space, a goat romps and a rooster struts across a modest book cover. Beneath them, running right to left, is the Yiddish word “mayselekh” — less a title than a simple description of what’s inside: two little stories for children. The book, which is more like a pamphlet, is small enough to…
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News The Art of Dreidels
Someone less skilled with an X-ACTO knife might find Melanie Dankowicz’s drawings to be positively diabolical. But her husband, Harry, relishes the challenge. Steadily, he traces her tight curlicues and webby threads with a blade, bringing her vision to life. He lifts the paper to reveal a* ketubah* — worthy border, rich in detail and…
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Culture A Good Education: Foundation Celebrates 18 Years
With 18 years and counting of support for innovative initiatives in Jewish education, the Covenant Foundation marked its chai anniversary last month with a three-day celebration in New York City. The festivities included a gala evening, dispersal of awards and — true to Covenant Foundation form — opportunities for serious discussion among some of North…
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Culture Language Educators Rethink Their Hebrew Lessons
Rachel Jackson doesn’t remember learning Hebrew at the Jewish Community Day School, where she spent kindergarten through eighth grade, but something must have stuck: She’s now among the top Hebrew-language students at her Jewish high school. “Things I learned at JCDS, I don’t remember learning, because they seemed to come naturally,” Jackson said. Perhaps that’s…
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Israel News Yiddish Hits Scrabble Board
Yiddish: It gives you an excellent advantage in Scrabble. Nigel Richards is living proof. A New Zealand native now residing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Richards won the 2008 National Scrabble Championship held July 25 through July 29 in Orlando, Fla., after 28 rounds of play. The 30-something security engineer got a great assist from Yiddish…
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Culture Nonprofit Urges Humane Investments
When it comes to changing the world, sometimes how you invest is as important as how much you invest. Darfur activists Eric Cohen, Susan Morgan and Bill Rosenfeld believe that if you knew your nest egg might be supporting genocide, you’d want out. That’s the premise behind their group, Investors Against Genocide, a project of…
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Culture A Very Sweet Seder
As miracles go, it’s hard to trump the parting of the Red Sea. But there’s something miraculous about the fact that a box of chocolate truffles made in a Boston suburb and ordered by Norma and Alvin Hass near Chicago will, once again, grace the Seder table of their daughter and her family in Eagle…
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