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In place of a proud emblem of Jewish immigration in NYC, million-dollar condos and a private garden
Gentrification comes for the Bialystoker Center and Home for the Aged
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Film & TV Alex Ross Perry’s Tale Of Quiet Desperation — And People Who Won’t Shut Up
“Some people would find it stifling or, you know, contained, but I love it. It’s thrilling, for my whole life to exist in one small zone,” Nick muses to Naomi, a visitor from out of town shortly into Alex Ross Perry’s “Golden Exits.” Like Nick, the film is nestled snugly into a well-defined portion of…
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How A Teenage ‘Shabbos Goy’ Stowed Away On America’s First Antarctic Exploration
Teenagers dream about running away. They always have; they likely always will; often, when they do, the results are decidedly weird. (See: Haight-Ashbury circa the 1960s.) But there’s packing a knapsack and setting out for the Summer of Love, and then there’s swimming across a major river intending to hitch a ride on a boat…
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Rachel Kadish Wins Association Of Jewish Libraries’ Inaugural Fiction Award
On Tuesday, the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) announced Rachel Kadish as the winner of its first-ever Jewish Fiction Award. Her novel, “The Weight of Ink,” was chosen from a list of 50 works of fiction with “significant Jewish thematic content,” according to an AJL blog post. Ruth Gilligan’s “Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan”…
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6 Moroccan Cities Where Jewish Culture Flourishes
You catch the traces of Morocco’s once-vibrant Jewish life in glimpses. The stray Stars of David etched above doorways in the coastal city of Essaouira. A gilded Seder plate peeking through an antique shop’s window in Fez’s mazelike medina. Steps away from the sensory overload of snake charmers, fragrant spices and heckling salesmen in Marrakech’s…
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Paul Simon To Stop Touring: Here Are His Eight Best Songs
Time slip-slides away from us all. Today, Paul Simon, that soft-spoken musical genius whose performance career has spanned six decades, announced plans for a farewell tour. In a note to his fans, Simon, 76, cited the recent death of his lead guitarist, Vincent N’guini. He said that he also wishes to minimize time away from…
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The ‘Uber’ Of The Weed Industry
If you’re a stoner, a journalist or an ISIS supporter, you’ve probably heard of Telegram, the new encrypted messaging app that can automatically erase sent messages. What you don’t know is that Israelis are using it to revolutionize the marijuana market — all with the creation of a community channel called Telegrass. Telegrass boasts more…
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7 Insider Tips To Make The Most Of Your Campus Tour
Although it’s been many years since I worked as a campus tour guide at American University, I can still tell you all there is to know about the place, and can do so with pride. After all, it’s one of the top schools in the country — when ranked alphabetically. Tour guides share a bond…
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WATCH: Ruth Bader Ginsburg And Jane Eisner In Conversation
The interview proper begins at 7:11. Click here for the full transcript Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an icon, a living legend, a hero and a meme. She was the second woman to become a justice of the United States Supreme Court (that’s what “associate justice” means), where she has served the…
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For This Jewish Writer, Venice Was Only a Drippy City On The Adriatic
The peripatetic M. Baranov (1864-1942) — pseudonym of the earliest known Forverts travel writer Moyshe Gormidor — was employed by the Forverts starting in 1905. Forward Founder Ab Cahan called him a born satirist and remarkably clear writer specializing in short robust sentences and an edgy sense of humor. A revolutionary from Zhitomir in the…
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Art In Jerusalem, An Exhibit Interrogates The Myth Of Soviet Jewry’s Israeli Integration
13-year-old Zoya Cherkassky couldn’t look away from the window of her apartment in Kiev. The winter of 1990 was snowy and cold, yet even so, people were waiting in a bread line that stretched out the door of the shop across the street. “It was weird, because there were lines during that period, but not…
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Music Travel: Ten Must-Attend Celebrations Of Leonard Bernstein’s Centenary
There are different levels at which one can love Leonard Bernstein. There’s knowing all the lyrics to “Somewhere”; there’s devotion to his lesser-known works, like, say, the “Chichester Psalms”; then there’s throwing a two-year global festival in honor of the centennial of his birth. While that centennial doesn’t arrive until August 25, the festivities already…
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