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ACT UP changed AIDS activism. Sarah Schulman wants us to learn its lessons
Sarah Schulman had already been covering AIDS as a journalist for five years when she attended a 1987 demonstration organized by the newly-formed AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, better known as ACT UP. ACT UP members picketed outside New York City’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for 72 hours in protest of the sluggish pace…
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Books Looking for Hope: A writer finds inspiration in Jewish-Palestinian friendship, especially now
Haviva Ner-David was just starting to promote her debut novel, about the intersecting lives of two Israeli women — one Jewish, one Palestinian — when last month’s military escalation with Gaza erupted, accompanied by the worst internecine fighting between Jewish and Arab citizens in recent memory. Ner David, a rabbi, writer, and mother of seven,…
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Arturo Schwarz — lover of art, paragon of altruism
Visitors to the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum, Negev Museum of Art in Be’er Sheva, and National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome will recognize the name of Arturo Schwarz, who died June 23 at age 97. Schwarz was the munificent donor of a splendid collection of Dada and surrealist art to these institutions and…
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Fiction | The Holy Messiah
Can you believe it, there are Jews here living among us on this sliver of desert hugged on the one side by the Mediterranean and on the other by enemies too numerous to count, who do not recognize the State of Israel, or plain old “Israel,” or even “ha-aretz,” like the name of the newspaper,…
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Books She followed rookie doctors through the very worst of COVID
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — For most New Yorkers, the early days of COVID-19 were synonymous with eerily empty streets, the constant wail of sirens, and the clapping and cheering for health care workers. But what was it really like for the doctors and other health care professionals who found themselves…
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Netflix’s ‘sexy’ new animal-head dating show has biblical overtones — sort of
What if you were dating a rather bulbous dolphin? It’s a question no one had ever asked themselves before the arrival of Netflix’s new dating show, “Sexy Beasts.” Contestants are swathed in an obscene amount of FX makeup and prosthetic fins and transformed into various creatures, both real and fantastical, to see if they can…
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Film & TV How Jewish and Irish humor intermarried on ‘Conan’
Nearly 28 years ago Conan O’Brien filmed himself walking to his first day of work. Along the way, his doorman, hopscotching children and a horse and buggy driver, reminded him he was under “a lot of pressure” and threatened that “he better be good.” O’Brien, an accomplished writer for “SNL” and the “The Simpsons,” but…
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A year and a half later, a treasured voice returns — and maybe so does a city
It was just a step up from the floor to a low stage, just one nod to the band, just the first soft words of “My Funny Valentine,” that standard of standards by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart: “Stay little valentine stay.” That’s all it took and without the slightest mention of taking more than…
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This year, Rosh Hashanah comes in a can
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a delicious Rosh Hashanah craft beverage? Maybe something with some apple and honey in it, but without any bitter IPA aftertaste. And, though you can never tell with craft production, it would be good if it didn’t have any added sugar. What would be even better would be…
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We tried six kinds of cyser — and have recovered sufficiently to write about them
A select group of intrepid mead tasters gathered to try six surprisingly different cysers. Our tasters ran the gamut from mead cynic to enthusiast and the cysers ran the gamut from those featuring simply apple and honey to those including mangos, habañero peppers and Sri Lankan cinnamon. 1) Elemental (Maryland) Heirloom Cider Very cidery. Not…
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At Zabar’s, mastering the art of the schmooze
I looked up at the clock on the far rear wall in my section. It was 4 o’clock and he hadn’t shown up yet. I worried a little and continued waiting on customers. He completely left my mind for a while and then, suddenly he was there, in the front of the store, reaching up…
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