Judy Stone
By Judy Stone
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Culture Prayers From China
Born and bred in China, Yiyun Li writes in English and has a deep affinity for Jewish writers because “they always write about the lowest, most tragic events in life, but they’re always very funny.” She isn’t sure how to explain it, but that combination of tragedy and comedy, best exemplified by her Russian-Jewish hero,…
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Culture A Jew Among the Inuit
As Norman Cohn will tell you now, he believes that the Jews and the Eskimos are the longest tribal survivors in history. But it’s a shared trait that the New York Jewish pioneer video artist had not considered until he found a spiritual home, and community work, among the Inuit people of Igloolik in the…
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News Filmmaker Tries To Tell Africans’ Tale in Their Own Voice
Empathy for the plight of Israel’s Ethiopian immigrants animates a film that won first prize at the Jerusalem International Film Festival in 2000 and that opens today at New York’s Quad Cinema. Dan Wolman, an Israeli film director with childhood roots in Ethiopia and years of TV work there, explores their problems in “Foreign Sister,”…
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