Marissa Brostoff
By Marissa Brostoff
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Culture In Thailand, an Unusual Exhibit
The recent history of photographer Yishay Garbasz’s family is a story of migration, elected and forced. Garbasz’s mother, Sala, was born in Berlin. She took refuge from the Nazis in Holland, was deported to concentration camps in Czechoslovakia and in Poland, and finally made her way to Palestine. His father, Jack, was sent to Australia…
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News Gay Alumni of Brooklyn Yeshiva Fight for Right To Bring Partners to Reunion
Alumni of a prominent Modern Orthodox yeshiva in Brooklyn were prohibited from bringing same-sex partners to a class reunion last month, causing an uproar among some former students. The high-school division of Yeshivah of Flatbush, one of the most prestigious Modern Orthodox schools in New York City, held a reunion in late December for members…
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Culture Conservative Schools Rethink Israel Studies
This month, a new middle-school curriculum focused on Israel will be launched as a pilot program in Conservative congregational schools. Israel Today is the final unit of Project Etgar, a curriculum currently being tried out in 25 supplementary schools affiliated with Conservative synagogues. “If you go to synagogue school, you come out thinking that Israel…
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Culture Orthodox School To Teach Job Skills
Yeshiva students may soon have the option to continue their Jewish studies with a few job skills thrown in. Chabad-Lubavitch, the Hasidic sect, and International Bramson ORT, a not-for-profit Jewish organization that promotes vocational training, are teaming up to start a school in which ultra-Orthodox students will study Talmud in the morning and learn computer…
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News Kashrut Certifiers Fight Over Slaughterhouse Turf
A conflict between supervising rabbis at an embattled kosher slaughterhouse has become public, opening a window into the usually closed world of kashrut certification. Rabbis who represent K’hal Adath Jeshurun, a small ultra-Orthodox community based in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, have announced that they will not continue to certify products at the huge…
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News Kosher Meat Company Loses Legal Fight to Union
It has not been a good week for AgriProcessors, the world’s largest kosher slaughterhouse. In addition to a falling-out between two of its kashrut certifiers, the company recently lost an appeal in federal court and continues to field attacks from the slaughterhouse workers’ union. Last week, a federal court of appeals rejected AgriProcessors’ claim that…
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News Hillel Releases First Guide for Gay, Lesbian Students
Last week, Hillel’s president announced the completion of a guide that aims to help its staff members welcome “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning” students. The 186-page resource was written and edited by a largely gay-and-lesbian-identified group of Hillel professionals, several of whom have been discreetly meeting for years. This is their most concerted…
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Culture Picturing the Holy City
Talk about the dustbin of history: In 1989, an American photographer happened upon a garage sale in St. Paul, Minn., and left with a box of the earliest-known photographs of Jerusalem from the 19th century. Taken by Mendel Diness, a Jewish watchmaker in Jerusalem, the photographs are currently on exhibit — along with shots by…
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