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How Does Robert Pinsky Pen A Protest Poem?
Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’s poem “Exile and Lightning” made an impact when he read it at a PEN America Writers Resist event in January. In front of a crowd that included cultural figures like Masha Gessen, Art Spiegelman, and Amy Goodman, Pinsky issued a striking reflection on the contemporary urgency of historic thought. “Now,…
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Art Times Review of Mossad-Organized Eichmann Exhibit Sparks Right-Wing Backlash
Art critics are used to having the last word on things, so New York Times writer Jason Farago must have been surprised when his review of “Operation Finale,” an exhibition on the capture and trial of SS leader Adolf Eichmann at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage, earned him the severe ire of the Algemeiner’s…
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Can You Sing A Novel To The Tune Of ‘Fiddler On The Roof’?
After Anatevka: A Novel Inspired by “Fiddler on the Roof” By Alexandra Silber Pegasus Books, 336 pages, $25.95 “Fiddler on the Roof” ends with the dairyman Tevye and most of his family evicted from their shtetl of Anatevka and heading to new lives in America. In their musical adaptation of Sholem Aleichem’s Yiddish-language tales, Joseph…
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Books German Project Reunites Books Stolen During Holocaust With Rightful Heirs
BERLIN (JTA) — A new search in Germany for books stolen from Jews during the Third Reich is beginning to bear fruit. Recently, a man in California who was the only survivor of the Holocaust in his family received a book from Germany that had been dedicated to him by a teacher. The only other…
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Dating As A Single, Orthodox Filmmaker Isn’t Easy
People often ask if I’m running out of story ideas for my web series “Soon By You”, which centers on Orthodox Jews dating in New York. I laugh. And then I cry. I have stories for days. It’s an interesting experiment, dating your target demographic. As much as I take bits and pieces from my…
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Might There Be A Cure For Genetic Trauma?
Is it possible for a pregnant woman under great stress to pass on that trauma to her fetus through a biological mechanism that alters her genes? And could those deleterious effects be reversed by diet? An emerging body of research has shown that survivors of the Holocaust transmit trauma to the next generation not only…
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Art How Jewish Athletes Defied Stereotypes Throughout History
Never Walk Alone: Jewish Identities in Sport At the Munich Jewish Museum Through January 7, 2018 The 1936 Berlin Olympics showcased the Nazi love of spectacle and buttressed the regime’s international legitimacy. To avert boycott threats, the government temporarily muted overt manifestations of its anti-Semitic policies, removing discriminatory signage and toning down newspaper rhetoric. But…
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25 Orthodox Jewish Moms And How They Nurse in Public
When my daughter was born, I had a lot to learn: How to reside in my new postpartum body, that had literally changed over the course of one night; how to breastfeed; how to soothe my colicky baby; how to function on less sleep. Not least of my new challenges was figuring out how to…
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Does ‘Death Wish’ Show How Jews Benefit From White Supremacist Fantasies?
“He looked like a white dude,” an earnest cop tells her superior in the new trailer for Eli Roth’s remake of the film “Death Wish.” She’s describing Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis,) a heavily armed vigilante engaged in a one-man war on crime. But she could also be talking about director Eli Roth himself — a…
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Randy Newman’s 7 Most Jewish Songs
Legend has it that at age nine, Randy Newman asked his father, “Hey dad, what’s a Jew?” A friend had invited Newman to a party; the friend’s father called to explain that he had to disinvite Randy because the event was being held at a restricted country club. At that point in his life, Newman…
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How Hebrew Has Managed To Survive
The Story of Hebrew by Lewis Glinert Princeton, $27.95, 281 pages Linguists tend to imagine language as a phenomenon outside human agency, its processes, like language change and acquisition, explained by deterministic rules. Dartmouth linguist Lewis Glinert, author of “The Story of Hebrew,” disputes the model that, stretching back to René Descartes, frames language and…
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