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The towering Jewish critic who taught me to grok art and hate Picasso
After Max Kozloff died at 91, a New York community came together to remember and to mourn
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The Sami Rohr Prize For Jewish Literature Announces Its Nominees
On April 1 the Jewish Book Council announced the finalists for the 2019 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Awarded since 2007, the Rohr Prize recognizes early career English-language writers whose work reflects the Jewish experience. The five finalists in contention for the top $100,000 prize include two past National Jewish Book Award winners —…
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RBG Attended An Amos Oz Commemoration In DC
On the afternoon of March 31, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a rare public appearance at the Temple Sinai synagogue in Washington, DC to pay her respects to Israeli author Amos Oz, who died of cancer in December at the age of 79. Ginsburg, who has been keeping a low profile since undergoing…
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Everyone Is Baffled By Batsheva
If you are a short person in New York you will experience certain uncomfortable things. Men reaching for the subway pole will put their elbows where your head ought to be. At events filled with tall women, you will feel like a child even as you mutter “I AM 26.” In your impractically tall-ceilinged apartment,…
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Film & TV Don’t Dismiss Steve Bannon — He Really Does Want To Dismantle The World Order
Stephen K. Bannon lost his job in the White House more than a year and a half ago, departing in an atmosphere so rancorous that his erstwhile champion, Donald Trump, slurred him on Twitter as “Sloppy Steve Bannon.”) Then Bannon’s full-throated support for Roy Moore’s campaign to represent Alabama in the U.S. Senate ended in…
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Carl Reiner On Judaism, Atheism And The ‘Monster’ In The White House
At 96, Carl Reiner still slays. The comedy deity, who is being honored this week at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival, has maintained his singular outlook — melding the clear-eyed and cockeyed, the everyday and absurd. Busier than most people half his age, Reiner’s prolific on Twitter, where the current occupant of the White House…
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What The New Left Could Learn From The Old Left
Political Action: A Practical Guide to Movement Politics by Michael Walzer NYRB Classics, 120 pages, $14.95 Michael Walzer’s “Political Action: A Practical Guide to Movement Politics,” published in 1971 and newly reissued by NYRB Classics, may be the least exciting book ever written about taking to the streets. I don’t mean that as an insult,…
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How The Jewish Left Evolved On Zionism
The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left From Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky By Susie Linfield Yale University Press, 400 pages, $32.50 In 1981, in an essay titled “Revolutionary Realism and the Struggle for Palestine,” Fred Halliday, a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review, broke with his comrades. A scholar of…
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Who To Read For Women’s History Month, Part Eight: Amy Levy
“This poem — surely a most remarkable one to be produced by a girl still at school — is distinguished, as nearly all Miss Levy’s work is, by the qualities of sincerity, directness, and melancholy.” That was Oscar Wilde on Amy Levy’s poem “Xantippe,” a 30-page imagined narration by Socrates’ wife. Levy originally published the…
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Is This High School Student’s Drawing Anti-Semitic Or Progressive?
An artwork displayed last week at Northern Virginia Community College’s Ernst Community Cultural Center in Annandale, Virginia drew condemnation from a local rabbi for anti-Semitism. The picture, which has since been removed, was drawn by a 17-year-old high school student and depicts a squint-eyed man with a hooknose, sidelocks and kippah standing near a well…
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The Secret Jewish History Of Baseball’s Opening Day
Like a New Year celebration, Major League Baseball’s annual opening day brings with it an opportunity to start afresh: to leave the past behind and to begin anew with a clean slate. Every team begins the new season as a reborn entity: The reigning World Champions and last year’s losers are equal going into the…
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Music Judge Dismisses All But One Of James Levine’s Defamation Claims In Met Case
It’s been a year since the Metropolitan Opera fired conductor James Levine, its longtime music director, following allegations of sexual abuse. In short order, Levine sued the Met for breach of contract and defamation. On Tuesday, March 26, Justice Andrea Masley of the New York State Supreme Court moved to dismiss all but one of…
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