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Q & A: How Should Jewish Studies Address Anti-Semitism?
A year ago, Leah Garrett left Australia, where she had been a professor at Melbourne’s Monash University since 2008, to direct the newly-founded Jewish Studies Center at Hunter College. A year into the job, Garrett, the author of four books — including 2015 National Book Award Finalist “Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American…
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Why Jewish Studies Is More Relevant Than Ever
If you’re a Jewish studies scholar, you know a truth that many American Jews don’t understand. For years, synagogues have decried shrinking membership, and liberal Jewish denominations have reported decreasing engagement. Intermarriage is widely feared, as is a supposed decline in interest in Israel. “We have lots of negative narratives,” says Leonard Saxe, a professor…
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How Jewish Studies Prepared Me For My Career
I walked into JTS for the first time a little over four years ago. I had just completed my junior year of college and was conducting research for my senior thesis over the summer. As a joint major in the comparative study of religion and sociology at Harvard University, I was investigating the views of…
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How Jewish Studies Became A Central Part Of American Colleges
In American universities, the trajectory of Jewish studies has always been a product of the times, from the Hebrew learning of prospective clergy in the colonial era, to today’s vibrant intersectional field for grads and undergrads. As Judith R. Baskin, the Philip H. Knight Professor Emerita in Humanities at the University of Oregon, wrote in…
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Updated: All About Taylor Swift’s Feud With Record Exec Scooter Braun
This is not a “Love Story.” Taylor Swift has alleged that her former label manager Scott Borchetta and his business partner Scooter Braun are keeping her from what would be a career high. Their company has denied the charges and entered the fray with allegations of their own. But this whole thing keeps getting wilder,…
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Trump’s Anti-Semitic Canard Honks At Adam Schiff
On Wednesday, House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff conducted the first public impeachment hearing on President Donald Trump with poise, conviction and — certainly — strength. Schiff duly addressed Republicans’ procedural challenges, and refused to be ruffled by, among other canards, his counterpart, ranking member Devin Nunes’s new claim that Democrats were trying to obtain nude…
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After Polish Government Complaint, Netflix To Amend Concentration Camp Maps
Following public complaints from the Polish government, Netflix will add explanatory notes to World War II-era maps showing the location of concentration camps used in its documentary series “The Devil Next Door.” The move by the streaming giant, reported by The New York Times, follows a letter of complaint from Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Marawiecki…
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Rick Ludwin, NBC Exec Who Gave ‘Seinfeld’ A Shot, Dies At 71
When the history books are written (and some of them already have been), the record will show that it took a gentile to make “Seinfeld” a reality. Rick Ludwin, the NBC executive who was the so-called Show About Nothing’s biggest cheerleader at the network, died Sunday of organ failure at a Los Angeles hospital, The…
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At JCC’s Other Israel Film Festival, Borders Divide and Meals Unite
The Marlene Meyerson JCC’s Other Israel Film Festival is aptly named. Dedicated to representing underserved communities in the Jewish state, the festival showcases a cross-section of Israeli society that may be unfamiliar to many American filmgoers. Aside from new perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this year’s lineup features immigrant narratives, portraits of notable (and controversial)…
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The Strange Saga Of The Fake Hitler Diaries That Sparked An International Scandal
In 1978, a handsome leather volume monogrammed with Adolf Hitler’s initials entered the collectors’ market. It would be the first of many. The books were diaries chronicling the Fuhrer’s life, often in banal detail. The New Yorker reported in 2013 that they included reflections on his bad breath and girlfriend Eva Braun’s false pregnancy. But,…
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On The Trail Of Nazis And Nazi Hunters In America
Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America By Debbie Cenziper Hachette Books, 300 pages, $28 In his 2016 book, “The Nazi Hunters,” Andrew Nagorski suggested that, with nearly all the Nazi perpetrators gone, the time had come to tell the story of the men and women who had pursued them across continents…
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