Micah Kelber
By Micah Kelber
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Life Hip Hopping Mad in the Holy Land: Sagol 59
In “The Land of No Hop” the rapper Sagol 59 (Khen Rotem) lays out evidence to justify his belief that despite a number of successful Israeli hip hop groups, the genre has not yet been born in Israel. His reasons range from the fact that the most popular radio station is owned by the government…
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News Urban Desert Holy Land Hip-Hop
The hip-hop bravado of Soulico, the Israeli DJ collective, comes with an undercurrent of adorable self-consciousness. Although the members are veterans of the business, they seem surprised by their breakthrough with an album and an American tour. Their affect is an excited, ?Can you believe it?? Because of the vibrant complexity they create, you shouldn?t…
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News Forget Your ‘Bashert,’ God Has Made You Millions To Choose From
Massechet Sotah in the Babylonian Talmud is not the best place to look for perspectives that contemporary Jews hold on relationships. In fact, you’d imagine that such a tractate would be about as informative as the book of Leviticus is on contemporary attitudes of dinner etiquette. But there on the very first page of Sotah…
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Culture For Four Decades, a Doctor’s Legacy of Life
Forty years ago, when Dr. Felicia Axelrod began caring for patients with familial dysautonomia at the New York University Medical Center, 50% of parents who had children with the rare genetic disorder could expect to bury them before they reached the age of 5. Today, thanks in large part to her pioneering work on treating…
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Culture At Home To War and Peace
The central moment in Doron Ben-Atar’s new play “Peace Warriors” about the personalities, politics and relationships of the American academic left can slip by if you don’t pay attention. It takes place at the home of Darryl (the wife) and Scooter (the husband) Lewis. The couple, both Jews, live in New Haven, where she teaches…
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Culture A Horse! A Horse! My Horse for a Theater!
On cold winter New York nights in the late 1990s, Erez Ziv could be seen driving a horse-driven carriage and smiling as big as the moon. A rare Israeli among the otherwise Irish population, he excelled at the act he performed for tourists seeking romantic turns in the park or through Times Square. Regaling them…
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Culture David Grossman: The Language of Significance
When David Grossman made his way to his place on the stage for the two talks that he gave earlier this month — the first as part of the PEN World Voices Festival at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, and the second, a talk about the Polish writer…
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Life Etgar Keret on Becoming a ‘World Champion’ Writer
This week at Manhattan’s Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, writer and director Etgar Keret appeared before the book group of Dor Chadash, an organization that brings together Israeli and American Jews. Much like his stories, Keret, the author of “The Girl on the Fridge” and “Missing Kissinger,” among other books, was incredibly approachable and exciting. In…
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