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Amy Reichert’s Art Reinvents Judaica
Calling all Cassandras, those given to gloom and doom about the pliancy of contemporary Jewish life, much less its future. I suggest they make a beeline for Chicago’s Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership’s new exhibition, “Amy Reichert: Reinventing Judaica,” whose display of Jewish ritual objects will go a very long way toward dispelling…
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Two Friends, 1 Mission and 65,000 Documents
Investment banker Lewis Lehrman had been collecting historical documents for almost thirty years when his friend Richard Gilder walked into his office one afternoon in the late 1980s. Lehrman, who had taught history at Yale and Harvard, was looking through a catalog of historical documents that he was considering for purchase. After Gilder asked about…
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Maybe Once Was F–cking Enough
● You Have To F–KING EAT By Adam Mansbach Illustrated by Owen Brozman Akashic Books, 32 f–king pages, $14.95 I’m sure I won’t be the one critic Who’ll review Adam Mansbach’s new book in rhyme The idea’s hackneyed, but hell, what the f–k It’ll save space and a shitload of time. Like many a reader…
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8 Facts About Jewish Alaska
1. As of 2012, Alaska is home to just over 6,000 Jews. 2. Four mountain peaks in Alaska are named after Jews, including Mount Ripinsky for Solomon Ripinsky, a former mayor of Haines, Alaska, and Mount Neuberger for former Oregon Senator Richard Neuberger, who supported Alaskan statehood. 3. The largest Jewish congregation in Alaska, Congregation…
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Why Jewish Charities’ Tax Filings Are One Huge Mess
This was supposed to be a story about the money that Jewish charities spend on outside lobbyists. That’s something you’d like to know, right? How the $26 billion Jewish charity industry uses its massive financial resources to influence government, and how much it’s paying to do it? Turns out I can’t tell you. That’s because…
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How Colonel Jennifer Pritzker Pushes for Transgender Rights in Military
Colonel Jennifer Natalya Pritzker is not much for the spotlight. Like the rest of her family, the massively wealthy Chicago-based real estate scions, she rarely gives interviews. But the 63-year-old, whose official title is Colonel (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker IL ARNG (Ret), doesn’t have to say much for her mission to be clear. With an…
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Where the Pritzker Money Goes
With an estimated net worth of $29 billion, the Pritzkers are among the 10 wealthiest families in the United States. The philanthropic causes the Ashkenazi Jewish family supports are almost as diverse as the real estate and business investments that made them rich. Here are some of the most significant ones. Jewish Causes $3 million…
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Chabad Lawyer Mediates Between Inuit Tribes in Alaska — and Keeps Kosher
In the remote villages of rural “Bush” Alaska — a vast region neither accessible by road nor connected to the ferry system — not only do indigenous people still rely on subsistence foods, but sharing these foods also holds significant cultural importance, especially in forging new friendships. “The problem is whale, seal, shellfish (obviously), even…
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Music Soldier Stabbed in Suspected Tel Aviv Terror Attack
A Palestinian stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli soldier near a Tel Aviv train station on Monday, police said, as anti-Israel violence that has raised concern about a new Palestinian uprising in the making reached the country’s business capital. Israeli-Palestinian tensions have festered over access to a Jerusalem compound housing Islam’s third holiest site and…
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Nazi Hunter Meets Nazi Architect
Dani Gal is of the generation of Israeli artists who, instead of creating their national myths, grew up with them, lived under their spell, and watched as the myths grew into monoliths meant to define a people’s sense of themselves. His work is infused with a discomfort over the causal inevitability between the Holocaust and…
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Could This Be Year of the Jewish Woman?
Never in the 20 years that the Forward has published its list of the 50 American Jews who have had the most impact on our national story has the number of women been this high — 26 in all, including four of the top five. Even we were surprised at the final tally. While women…
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