Karen E. H. Skinazi
By Karen E. H. Skinazi
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Opinion When a breast cancer diagnosis knocked me down, a network of Jewish women lifted me up
I was stunned by the number of friends my age who sent me messages to tell me they had recently gone through the same thing
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Culture Can four stylish yeshiva lads find love and karmic bliss amid the temptations of ‘New Hebron?’
At the start of the second season of the Israeli hit comedy, “Shababnikim,” or “The New Black,” as it’s called in English, our four favorite TV yeshiva bochers — Avinoam, Gedalia, Dov Lazer, and Meir — have landed in the neighborhood of Rehavia, on what residents call the last secular street in Jerusalem. Kicked out…
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The Schmooze Why British TV Handled Race Worse Than Starbucks
As Americans were watching Starbucks unveil its short-lived “Race Together” campaign — a push to talk about race in classic coffee klatch tradition — Brits were watching Trevor Phillips, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and Head of the Commission for Racial Equality under Prime Minister Tony Blair, also talking about race,…
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Food Our British-Canadian-American (Jewish) Thanksgiving
Thinkstock Growing up in Montreal and Toronto respectively, neither my husband nor I celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving. According to my parents, it was a Christian holiday. In my imagination, Thanksgiving encouraged families of scrubbed-faced pale-haired Christians across the country to sit around their hand-sawn and sanded wood tables under a big similarly homemade cross and say…
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Opinion Diving Into ‘The Melting Pot’ for Answers on Pew Survey of #Jewish America
When the researchers at Pew released their study in early October, they offered a series of statistics that were supposed to offer “A Portrait of Jewish Americans.” While I admit I’m not a quantitative type, its seems that a third of Jewish America immediately despaired the fate of Jews; then a third of Jewish America…
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News When a Jewish Day School Closes Days Before Start of Classes
Three years ago I was living in Western Canada, and my oldest boy was a kindergartener at a Jewish day school there. The school was fine — neither spectacular nor terrible. I sent my son there because, frankly, it was the only Jewish game in town. But in my mind, I was going to send…
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Books David Bezmozgis and Me
Back in the early 1980s, the Russians were coming. Not the Cold Warriors, but the Jewish children, with names like Yana and Inna and Igor. Each child seemed impossibly pale — pale hair, pale eyes, pale skin, pale lips, pale hand clutching the hand of his or her mother, a woman, in contrast, impossibly bright…
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