Shira Telushkin lives in Brooklyn, where she writes about religion, fashion and culture. She’s working on a book about monastic intrigue in modern America. Follow her on Twitter @shira_telushkin or email [email protected].
Shira Telushkin
By Shira Telushkin
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Opinion Make 2,000 years of mourning count: Use it to fight racism.
There is a story first documented at the end of the 1800s and almost certainly false: Napoleon was taking a walk in Paris one August evening when he heard a loud wailing from a nearby synagogue. His servants investigated and found people sitting on the ground, barefoot, weeping into prayer books. They informed Napoleon that…
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Opinion Jews came to America to escape darkness. For African Americans, America was darkness.
This weekend, I marched across the Brooklyn Bridge. To the left, through the thick cables and ropes of the bridge, I could see the Statue of Liberty, clear and strong. My grandmother had learned the Emma Lazarus poem by heart when she was a child, so I memorized it, too, and now the words came…
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