Rachel Benaim
By Rachel Benaim
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Life Sheitels and Garments: A Mormon and a Jew Discuss the Dreaded ‘MRS’ Degree
Sheitels and Garments is a series of letters between Brianne McDonald, a Mormon writer, and Rachel Delia Benaim, a Jewish freelance journalist. They discuss topics pertaining to women, religion, and modernity of both faiths in the 21st century. Sheitels refers to the wigs that married Orthodox women are wear after they’re married. Garments refers to…
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Culture The Hasidim of Brooklyn Are Ready for Their Close-Up
The art at the Brooklyn Public Library branch on Grand Army Plaza just got a little more frum and a little more Japanese. Through February, the library is featuring a black and white photo exhibit depicting the life and rituals of Crown Heights’ Chabad Lubavitch hasidim. The exhibit, entitled “The Hasidim of Crown Heights, Brooklyn;…
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Culture ‘Klinghoffer’ Protesters United Against ‘Anti-Semitic’ Opera
On the first crisp night of fall, about a thousand people — many of them in wheelchairs — gathered outside the Metropolitan Opera to protest the opening night of John Adams’s opera “The Death of Klinghoffer.” Both sides of Broadway between 63rd and 68th street were closely secured by NYPD officers and some of their…
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News Rabbi Who Uses Martial Arts in Cancer Fight Wins CNN Hero Nod
Some people break down in the face of personal tragedy. Others become heroes to someone else. Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg, aka Rabbi G., chose the latter path. After his first daughter, Sara, lost a battle with leukemia just after her second birthday in 1981, Goldberg could’ve shut down. Instead, he chose to help other children with…
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