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Is Poetry After Idlib Barbaric?
On December 19th, during the final death throes of the city of Aleppo, I wrote the following words, “What do we mean when we say “never again?” These days, do we mean anything at all? Perhaps when the phrase was coined in 1961 by filmmaker Erwin Leiser in his Holocaust documentary, “Mein Kampf,” we might…
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Hungary Passes Amendment In Move To Expel Soros Funded Central European University
Budapest’s Central European University (CEU) is the latest casualty in Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s war on liberalism and free expression. Earlier today the Hungarian Parliament approved an amendment to a higher education law that would, per the New York Times, “restrict the independence of universities that offer diplomas from countries where they do not…
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Dana Schutz’s Emmett Till Painting Temporarily Removed From Whitney Biennial
The 2017 Whitney Biennial, while mostly well-reviewed, has been dominated by controversy over Dana Schutz’s painting “Open Casket,” based on a photograph of Emmett Till in his coffin. Till was a 14-year-old black boy who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of flirting with a white woman. His lynching, and his…
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All The Jewish Major Leaguers To Watch As Baseball Returns
(JTA) — In baseball, they say time begins on Opening Day. Everyone has a chance for a fresh start. Most of the old familiar names are back, although some have new addresses. If you count Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus, there are nine Jews who begin the year on Major League rosters. But then there’s…
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What A Pleasure It Is To Feel Lost On Passover
Nowadays, my father who is 87 (till 120!) and I are at odds. Even though we are as attached as ever (we speak on the phone every morning), we are lost to each other. In fact, he won’t be coming to my seder nor I to his. In my family growing up, it was a…
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In Trump’s America, These 10 Projects And Organizations Are Endangered
To get a better idea of the sorts of projects funded by the NEA and the NEH, we surveyed a number of individuals and organizations to see how they have been directly impacted. 2016 National Museum of American Jewish History, in Philadelphia $325,000 National Endowment for the Humanities To support the exhibition “1917: How One…
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Protesting Trump, ‘1984’ To Screen In Theaters Around The World
References to George Orwell’s dystopian classic “1984” have proliferated since the inauguration of President Trump, at one point sending the book to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list. Tomorrow, Al Jazeera reports, close to 200 movie theaters worldwide will screen Michael Radford’s film adaptation of the novel, originally released in — wait for it —…
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Naomi Alderman Named Finalist For Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction
British-Jewish novelist Naomi Alderman is among the six finalists for this year’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Alderman, whose nominated novel “The Power” imagines a world in which women suddenly invert the gender status quo, forcing men into fearful seclusion, previously won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel “Disobedience.” That prize became…
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The ‘Alt-Right’ Loves This Dead Nazi. Would He Have Loved Them Back?
Philosopher Martin Heidegger, widely considered to be the one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, is also widely considered to have been a truly terrible man. As a philosopher, Heidegger is known for his contributions to phenomenology, ontology, and existentialism, whose influence extended to thinkers such as Jean Paul Sartre and Hannah…
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Jewish Book Council Announces 2017 Sami Rohr Prize Finalists
The Jewish Book Council has announced the finalists for the 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. The finalists, known as the Sami Rohr Prize Fellows, are Paul Goldberg for “The Yid,” Idra Novey for “Ways to Disappear,” Daniel Torday for “The Last Flight of Poxl West,” Adam Ehrlich Sachs for “Inherited Disorders: Stories, Parables…
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Go See These Four Medieval Haggadot At The Met – Just In Time For Passover
If you’re having a hard time getting into the Passover spirit this year (is this a thing?), then The Met might have the antidote you’re looking for. Starting on April 10th, The Met will be displaying four European Haggadot created between 1300 and 1515 on loan from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary in…
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