Rebecca Anne Proctor is the former editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar Art + Harper’s Bazaar Interiors. She has written for Artnet News, The Forward, Al-Monitor, Arab News, Wallpaper, Frieze and Vogue.
Rebecca Anne Proctor
By Rebecca Anne Proctor
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News Halva brownies and miso shakshuka: The UAE’s first major kosher kitchen opens for business
The gleaming new industrial kitchen on the grounds of one the Arab world’s busiest airport wouldn’t be remarkable except for one fact: it’s kosher. Kosher Arabia at Dubai World Central (DWC) airport is a registered producer of kosher food in the United Arab Emirates, set up in partnership with Emirates Flight Catering and CCL Holdings….
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News Joseph Pilates invented a method. His Jewish lawyer helped make it a movement.
In 1963, John Howard Steel was a 28-year-old Jewish attorney living in New York with a demanding law practice, an unhappy marriage, and a stiff neck. One day, his mother urged him to find a cure to his aching neck. He walked into a gym run by a German immigrant named Joseph Pilates. Pilates’ gym…
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News Are quiet Lebanon-Israel talks a harbinger of peace?
Are quiet, below-the-radar talks between Lebanon and Israel a harbinger of broader rapprochement? In Lebanon’s capital city and across the border in Israel, there’s a gathering consensus that something like peace is possible. “Looking at it from a political and economic lens, we as Lebanese are sinking by ourselves, so it is now time that…
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News As Israel and UAE make peace, Dubai Jewish community flourishes
Some called it “the underground synagogue,” but the sanctuary of the Jewish Community of the Emirates would be familiar to Jews anywhere in the world. During a recent service, several rows of chairs seat a group of around 10 men and women in separated sections. The chairs surround a simple table on which sits the…
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News Emiratis say their deal with Israel will be good for Palestinians, too — eventually
There are still plenty of critics of the historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, but the one place you won’t find many of them is in the UAE. People here have by and large embraced the bilateral “Abraham Accord,” which was signed Aug. 13 and consummated, symbolically at least, on Aug. 31,…
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Culture Will a Saudi TV show change how Jews are seen in the Middle East?
It’s nighttime and there’s a festive gathering happening within a mud-walled home in a Kuwaiti village. But when a radio report announces the establishment of the state of Israel, the dancing and gregarious discussions quickly come to a halt. The year is 1948 and the scene is from the Ramadan series “Um Haroun” or “Mother…
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