Sara Trappler Spielman
By Sara Trappler Spielman
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Life Women Behind Creative School in Crown Heights
There’s a new Hasidic Montessori school for elementary boys in Crown Heights and creative women are behind the change. Lamplighters Yeshivah opened two years ago, driven by a group of Crown Heights parents who “allowed themselves to dream; to envision a new holistic educational experience for their children,” the school’s website says. Lamplighters is a…
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The Schmooze Friday Film: Women’s Only Screening in Jerusalem
Director Robin Garbose and the Cast of ‘The Heart that Sings’ at the World Premiere at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles on March 27, 2011. Orthodox director Robin Garbose is at it again. First she made history four years ago with a red carpet premiere of her movie musical “A Light for Greytowers”…
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News A Wizard in the Classroom
With his foot up in bed after surgery for a broken ankle, Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz, a teacher at SAR High School in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, contemplated how to reach students taking his senior elective Kabbalah course. It was the start of the school year, and the plethora of English texts attempting to…
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Israel News ‘Cutting Film’ Takes Top Prize
A documentary exploring circumcision won the prize for best New York documentary April 30 at the Tribeca Film Festival Awards Ceremony, held at the Union Square Ballroom. Celebrity chef and talk show host Rachael Ray presented the award to filmmaker Danae Elon for “Partly Private,” which had its world premiere at the festival. In her…
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Israel News Screening in Protest
Director Robin Garbose is planning protest screenings of her film “A Light for Greytowers” at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Israel on December 13 and 15, coinciding with the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, which refused to screen the movie for women-only audiences. Organizers of the weeklong festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque originally accepted the…
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Culture Hasidic Rabbi by Day, Pop Artist by Night
Punctuating his dark suit, Yitzchok Moully wears a bright-pink yarmulke, orange socks and a green tie. Moully, a youth director at the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge, N.J., wears both of his identities — Hasidic rabbi by day, painter by night — proudly. Although influenced by many sources, Moully’s style is reminiscent of Andy…
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Israel News Girls’ Night Out in Hollywood
Imagine a Hollywood premiere with all the glitz: red carpet, beautiful cast, photographers’ flashing lights, exhilarating buzz. Now, picture that same event with just one difference — only women may attend. Director Robin Garbose’s first feature film, “A Light for Greytowers,” will premiere in Los Angeles on December 29 at Paramount Studios’ Sherry Lansing Theater….
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Culture Inspired by Henson — and Schneerson
Dovid Taub has two main inspirations: Jim Henson and the Lubavitcher rebbe. Through his ability to knit threads of holiness and ancient kabbalistic wisdom into the fabric of his puppetry, Taub has created a comedy sitcom to which fellow Hasidim return every week. The “Itche Kadoozy Show” features a Hasidic rabbi and his troublemaking young…
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