Matthue Roth
By Matthue Roth
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News A Children’s Bible That Appeals More to Adults Than to Kids
Ellen Frankel, CEO and editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society, has labored for the better part of her career to make Jewish traditional texts more palatable to a general audience. The new “JPS Illustrated Children’s Bible” — a hybrid of JPS’s modern translation, along with Frankel’s reinterpretations of words and phrases that were archaic, awkward…
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News Teen Lit Takes the Road Less Traveled
For someone who’s recently written a novel about teenage Orthodox Jewish lesbians — it could even be called the definitive novel, since there isn’t exactly a surplus of teen Orthodox lesbian fiction floating around — Leanne Lieberman isn’t really the ideal spokeswoman for the “Orthodyke” community. As a matter of fact, she’s neither Orthodox nor…
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News A Taste of Israel
Israeli food is known for a lot of things, but refinement is not traditionally one of them. There is the falafel mentality (crispy and greasy), the hummus-and-pine-nuts-platter mentality (quick, clean and healthy) and the pomegranate-seed mentality (exotic and Mediterranean, but scant, like the kind of food you’d expect birds to eat in an Israeli rainforest)….
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Culture Inspired by Jazz, a Poet Does ‘His Own Thing’
The recent PEN/Oakland National Book Awards were a bit of a change of pace for Steve Dalachinsky. For one thing, the poet’s usual performance venues are smoky Manhattan bars and tiny underground jazz clubs, not academic auditoriums. For another, Dalachinsky is far more accustomed to going to other people’s performances than to his own. In…
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News Food Maven Rethinks Jewish Cuisine
Arthur Schwartz’s main kitchen was packed. It did not seem like an unusual occurrence. On this particular day, a neighbor came over, searching for challah tips, and his housekeeper polished a set of antique brass pans. In the background, his assistant whipped up a prolific number of apple cakes for a lecture taking place the…
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Film & TV David’s the Singer, He’s the Rapper
Oded Turgeman, director of the new short film “Song of David,” doesn’t do things the easy way. As a burgeoning film director, he applied to Jerusalem’s most prestigious film school, with a commander in a combat unit as his only prior life experience. Then he moved to America to attend the American Film Institute —the…
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Israel News Showdown in the Kitchen
There is such a thing as a free lunch. At least there was at the Simply Manischewitz Cook-Off. On Wednesday, February 27, at the Financial District Hilton in Manhattan, six finalists vied for the coveted title of 2008 National Champion, an honor that comes along with a $25,000 kitchen makeover — and the far more…
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News A Youthful House
Being a Zionist on an American college campus can get lonely. On one side, there are overwhelmingly liberal campuses, teeming with student groups who equate Zionism with racism. On the other, there is the Republican right, which often qualifies its love for Israel with hints of evangelism, or ties it to a right-wing social agenda….
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