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At the L.A. Opera, a Lifelong History Project
When the music director of the Los Angeles Opera, James Conlon, presented “Der Zerbrochene Krug” (“The Broken Jug”) on a recent Sunday afternoon, it marked the first time that an American audience had seen the one-act comedy composed by Viktor Ullmann, a Czech Jew who was dragged off to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and later…
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March 14, 2008
100 Years Ago in the forward The wedding of Leo Jacobs and Gussie Goldman, which took place this past Sunday in Brooklyn, had an unusual feature: The couple’s chupah was held up by 12 people, none of them Jewish and all of them Brooklyn policemen. The police-chupah bearers were there on account of Jacobs’s previous…
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Film & TV Brooks and Black on Blondes and Bar Mitzvahs
The New York Post’s Page Six features these two celebrity quotes today: “”YES, I have always loved a good blonde, and who wouldn’t?” — Mel Brooks “PART of the bar mitzvah is that you become a man supposedly at 13 years old. And as I was a man, I decided never to go to a…
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Unterzakhn, Part 1
Read the first installment of Leela Corman’s new graphic novel, “Unterzakhn,” which is being serialized in the Forward: CLICK FOR LARGER VIEW
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Introducing a New Graphic Novel: Leela Corman’s ‘Unterzakhn’
Leela Corman, perhaps better than most of us, sees the lines and colors drawn into the buildings and sidewalks of New York. As a belly dancer, visual artist and native New Yorker, she has dedicated much of her professional life to exploring the contours of the city’s neighborhoods through illustration, painting and graphic novels —…
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The Path Of the Just: Is Mussar the ‘New Kabbalah’?
Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar By Alan Morinis Trumpeter, 335 pages, $24.95 A Responsible Life: The Spiritual Path of Mussar By Ira Stone Aviv Press, 320 pages, $17.95. How do you become a better person? A simple question, it would seem, but there are no easy answers — and no agreement as…
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A Shiva on Every Page
Lush Life By Richard Price Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 464 pages, $26. Bodymore, Murderland: Two white cops encounter a black drug dealer on a blighted street corner; one of them asks where he could get a baseball cap like that, with a brim to the side. The dealer answers that his is just a regular…
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Protecting the Graveless
This past fall, despite objections from both the White House and some in the organized Jewish world, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted to allow a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide to go before the House of Representatives. When the move led to mass protests in Turkey and threats from Ankara to disrupt the American…
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Warring Views
Breaking the Silence, a group of Israeli army veterans dedicated to public education about the effect of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, is hosting exhibitions this month in Philadelphia and Boston of images photographed by Israeli soldiers during active duty in the West Bank. While the group takes no political stand on resolving the…
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Arab Jew, Part III
The discussion in this column of the term “Arab Jew” has solicited two additional letters. One comes from Shaye J.D. Cohen, Littauer professor of Hebrew language and literature at Harvard University. The professor writes: “Apropos of your column re: Arab Jews, I note that there is a category of Arabi(ic) Christians. The Christians of Muslim…
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February 29-March7, 2008
100 Years Ago in the forward It isn’t easy to be an anarchist in America these days. In fact, it’s as bad as it was in 1901, after President McKinley was assassinated. New York’s most famous anarchist agitator, Emma Goldman, is supposed to speak in Chicago next week, but she may not make it, since…
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