Lauren Landau
By Lauren Landau
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Life At Long-Last, Giving Salomé a Voice
Water runs over the curves of Salomé’s bare skin. Alone together in an underground prison, John the Baptist baptizes the Judean princess. Instruct someone to imagine Salomé in the nude, and this is probably not the scene that comes to mind. But South African playwright and director Yaël Farber’s take on the biblical story doesn’t…
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Life Why I Choose to Forgive Rabbi Barry Freundel on Yom Kippur
His handwriting is terrible. He signs the letter, addressed from the D.C. jail, “Barry Freundel.” It makes me wonder if he always signed off that way, or if he recently stripped himself of the title “Rabbi.” I search through my Gmail inbox, scanning the past three years of correspondence, starting from when I began seriously…
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Life Esther Bubley’s Ordinary People
Walking through differently-themed rooms full of photos, viewers are confronted by scenes and spirits from the past. An Alfred Eisenstaedt portrait of a female National Skeet Shooting Champion adorns one wall, while another example of his work depicts a vocational classroom full of cheerful teenage girls, ready to learn the how to wrap packages. In…
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