Judy Bolton-Fasman
By Judy Bolton-Fasman
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Life Danae Elon’s Film Explores Loving And Leaving Jerusalem
There is a scene in Danae Elon’s remarkable and highly personal documentary, PS Jerusalem, in which her eldest son Tristan is walking at night with his best friend, a Palestinian named Luai. The boys, who are in grammar school, are classmates at the bilingual Hand in Hand School in Jerusalem and their ambling takes them…
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Life Boston-Area Rabbi Embraces Interfaith Dialogue and YouTube Activism
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the photograph of Muslims and Jews gathered around an unfurled Torah in the sanctuary of Temple Shalom Emeth, Rabbi Susan Abramson’s suburban Boston congregation, says volumes about her ongoing and notable interfaith outreach. The picture above was taken during an “Evening of Fellowship” with the local Muslim…
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Film & TV What Germans and Jews Can Learn From ‘Germans and Jews’
“Germans and Jews,” an engaging, thoughtful documentary about the current relationship between Germany and its Jewish population, begins with a lively dinner party. In the middle of the meal, a German woman suddenly confesses that she always feels self-conscious uttering the words Juden and Deutschland and only dares to say them in English. It is…
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Life The Messiness of Hoarding and Motherhood
“I come from a hot Yiddish mess of a family,” said Judy Batalion at a recent book talk in Boston sponsored by the Jewish Women’s Archive. That family, particularly Batalion’s unnamed mother, is front and center in her pitch perfect memoir, “White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood and the Mess in Between.” The physical…
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Life In Praise of Ethel Rosenberg
“The Hours Count,” Jillian Cantor’s second historical novel, includes a personal connection to her subject. The book, mainly a fictional portrait of Ethel Rosenberg, is also a tribute of sorts. Cantor was born on June 19, 1978, the 25th anniversary of the Rosenbergs’ executions. She came upon this bit of karmic information while she was…
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Life Introducing Abby Stein
The first thing that Abby Stein wants the world to know is that she did not leave her ultra-Orthodox community solely to become a woman. Since she came out this past August, Stein has been garnering attention as the transgender ex-Hasid. Although she acknowledges that the two events in her life are “intertwined,” she says…
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Life One Woman’s Investigation of Religion in Public Schools
One of the events that Linda K. Wertheimer reports on in her new and comprehensively researched book, “Faith Ed: Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance,” happened on a school field trip to a mosque in 2010. Two hundred students in Wellesley Middle School’s sixth grade visited a mosque in the Roxbury section of…
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Life Missing from the Feminist Conversation
It should have been an exciting night. Anita Hill and Letty Cottin Pogrebin were scheduled to be in conversation about “Faith, Feminism, Race and the Ties that Bind” under the auspices of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and Interfaithfamily.com. But the two women sat in armchairs on the stage of the Levin Theater in Brandeis University’s student…
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