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Film & TV 8 young Jewish comedians on what ‘SNL 50’ means to them
'Saturday Night Live' may be entering middle age, but these rising Jewish comics are just getting started.
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2017 New York Jewish Film Festival Announces Lineup
The 2017 New York Jewish Film Festival, which will take place January 11-24, has announced the primary lineup of films it will feature. Of the 29 films selected for the festival’s 26th incarnation, 26 will be receiving their world, United States, or New York premieres. The films will include Dorit Hakim’s “Moon in the 12th…
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Got $350,000 To Spare? This Judaica Auction Is Just the Place For You!
Looking to buy a killer Hanukkah gift? Well, if you have extremely deep pockets, this upcoming Sotheby’s auction might be for you. On December 15th, international auction house Sotheby’s will auction off 288 pieces of Judaica from around the world dating from between the 17th and 20th centuries. The auction will feature metalwork, textiles, and…
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How an Old Jewish Legend Might Thwart a Trump Presidency
One week from today, we will officially know who the next president of the United States will be. That’s right, it’s not quite over yet. Donald Trump won 306 electoral votes on November 8th, but, according to an article published in Politico, there are a growing number of electors, led by a group called The…
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At New Berlin Academy, Israelis and Arabs Find a Musical Path to Peace
Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said — one an Israeli classical music superstar, one a prominent Palestinian American academic — made an unlikely pair. Yet the duo found a rich artistic and intellectual ferment in their differences born, Said told NPR’s Scott Simon in a 2002 interview, out of the fact they were “both passionate about…
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Why I Do Not and Will Not Live in Donald Trump’s America
In President Obama’s remarks on Donald Trump’s election, he said that “we are now all rooting for his success in uniting and leading the country.” With all due respect to the President, I’m not. I’m not united behind Trump’s dismantling of NATO, the squandering of our Cold War victory, the abandonment of our allies or…
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Why Trump’s Victory Makes Me Fear For My Family
My parents are good people. They made me feel safe while I was growing up; they’ve supported my goals and shared in my greatest joys and pains. They are loyal friends, phenomenal grandparents, philanthropic, well-traveled and well-read. They raised not only me but also my mentally disabled brother. You probably know where I’m going with…
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READ: Bob Dylan’s Witty Nobel Speech
NOTE: The following is the speech written by Bob Dylan and delivered by the United States Ambassador to Sweden Azita Raji, at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2016. The speech is reprinted here in its entirety © The Nobel Foundation 2016. Good evening, everyone. I extend my warmest greetings to the members of the Swedish…
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WATCH: Patti Smith Sing For Bob Dylan at Nobel Ceremony
Amid a somewhat dour and all-too-respectful crowd who gathered today for the 2016 Nobel Prize ceremony in Sweden, Patti Smith took the stage to deliver a perhaps all-too-reverential performance of Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” Smith was subbing for the absent Dylan who did not attend the ceremony to accept his prize before…
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Here’s a Book That’s as Big as New York — And Almost as Jewish
Nonstop Metropolis Edited By Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly Schapiro University of California Press, 232 Pages, $29.95 It’s not often you see a book release like the one that recently took place for “Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas.” The Queens Museum hosted a launch party featuring a mapmaking workshop, a soundtrack of “songs…
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In Poland, Artistic Excavations Reveal a Lost World of Jews
This article, which originally appeared in the Forverts, is one of a four-part series by Barbara Finkelstein about her recent trip to Poland. The Grodzka Gate Centre in the city of Lublin came into being in the early 1990s, when Tomasz Pietrasiewicz, a physics student, set out to establish an independent theater in the Grodzka…
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Meet Daniel Levitin — A Polymath in the Truest Sense of the Word
Driving his 20-year-old Mercedes-Benz up and around the winding roads toward his house in the hills in a semirural area of San Francisco’s East Bay, Daniel J. Levitin is an enthusiastic guide to the abundant variety of trees in his neighborhood: California live oak, redwood, Pacific madrone. Suddenly, he brakes while making a turn and…
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