Netty C. Gross
By Netty C. Gross
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The Schmooze How to Sacrifice a Lamb and Other Important Information
For many Jews and non-Jews, American Jewish culture is defined by stereotypes such as the pushy mother, the shleppy father, chopped liver swans, too much food (“just in case…”) accountants, doctors, and holidays in the Catskills or Florida. But a new generation of Jews are so hip, Americanized and assimilated that they are not even…
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Culture Kosher, By Design
Orthodox by design By Jeremy Stolow University of California Press, 288 pages, $41.95 Despite the much-touted death of the physical book, the Orthodox Jewish publishing industry is booming. Perhaps because of the prohibition against using electricity on holidays or on the Sabbath, the ?ArtScroll revolution? is well under way. ?Orthodox by Design? by Jeremy Stolow…
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Culture Rashi, Wiesel: Why, Why, Why?
Rashi: A Portrait By Elie Wiesel Translated from French by Catherine Temerson NextBook and Schocken Books, 107 pages, $22 ‘Why Rashi and why me,” asks Elie Wiesel, in the preface to “Rashi,” a slim biography that is the latest offering in the Jewish Encounters series by NextBooks. Rashi is commonly thought to be an acronym…
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News Israel’s Politician as Super Woman
“Another soldier,” Anastasia Michaeli Samuelson said, patting her belly proudly when asked the sex of her soon-to-be-born eighth child. Michaeli, a glamorous 34-year-old Knesset member from Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party, is not being flippant. Nor is she daunted by the domestic burdens her concept of feminine patriotism implies. “God gave women powers,” she told…
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