
Rebecca Salzhauer is a writer and theatermaker based in New York.
Rebecca Salzhauer is a writer and theatermaker based in New York.
Whether you’re hoping for an in-person holiday or gearing up for a second year of virtual services, this year’s Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur come with unique challenges — and opportunities. Although the COVID-19 Delta variant means some synagogues’ plans are still up in the air, it’s not too early to start thinking about how…
One morning this spring I was circling the yard behind my apartment on the phone with my therapist. I’d perfected the particular choreography of our virtual sessions. Pacing the largest outside area that didn’t necessitate a mask, I rolled exercise into the process of analyzing my family dynamics or my self-confidence deficit or my gnawing…
Talia Suskauer first stepped onto the stage at her synagogue’s preschool as Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz.” Now, she’s starring as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, in the national tour of the musical “Wicked.” After making her Broadway debut as an understudy in the musical “Be More Chill,” Suskauer, then 23, joined…
The first time I cried in a bathroom, the only thing that soothed me was the promise of a black and white cookie. It was 2009, a week before my ninth birthday. A different virus, the swine flu, was poised to run rampant in my elementary school. My teacher told the class that to curb…
Nils Skudra was nearly five-and-a-half years old when he told his mother about his past life. “He looked at me out of the side of his eye and said, ‘I was a soldier in the American Civil War,’” his mother, Renee, recounted. “‘I saw action at the Battle of Gettysburg, and I died on the…
Enovid, a new nasal spray that counteracts SARS-CoV-2, among other viruses, is now on sale in Israel. Although Israel approved Enovid as a medical device with a claim to protect from viruses, Phase II clinical trials in the United Kingdom found statistically significant evidence that the spray can prevent the transmission of the coronavirus and…
Tahija Vikalo is a Muslim woman who lived on one side of a duplex in a Philadelphia suburb and befriended the Jewish woman who lived on the other side. Together in 2017, Vikalo and her neighbor, Nancy Nagel, joined the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an organization that builds trust and relationships between Muslim and Jewish…
The Israel Baseball Shop has released a limited edition bobblehead of Team Israel pitcher Shlomo Lipetz. The longest-tenured member of the Israeli National Baseball Team, Lipetz has played for the Israeli Baseball League since pitching in its inaugural season in 2007. The bobblehead, sponsored by custom yarmulke company Klipped Kippahs, features a mid-sidearm pitch and…
דער מוזיק־פֿאָרשער זיסל סלעפּאָוויטש ברענגט צוריק לידער רעקאָרדירט אין הײַנטיקן בעלאַרוס און אוקראַיִנע אין די 1930ער יאָרן.
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