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Author Blog: The Unlikely In-Laws
Earlier this week, Michelle Haimoff discussed having immigrant parents, baby boomers and parental expectations. Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: The hardest thing about breaking up with the…
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Books What the Kids Are Doing With Their Lives
Michelle Haimoff’s debut novel, “These Days Are Ours,” is now available. Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: I realized late in life that my parents weren’t your typical…
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Psoy Korolenko’s 21st Century Humor
It’s about two hours before their show at the JCC in Manhattan, and I’m having dinner with Psoy Korolenko and Daniel Kahn, the duo known as the Unternationale. As a solo performer, Korolenko has been winning fans in the United States, mostly at clubs and gatherings catering to young Russian émigrés and at university campuses….
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Jewish Creator of Modern German Police
As World War I neared its end, Germany turned its focus to internal security. Serious unrest in Berlin during the summer of 1918 led the Prussian Ministry of the Interior to make a surprising decision. Bernhard Weiss, a little-known Jewish war hero and recipient of the Iron Cross First Class, was ordered to leave the…
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The Shame Kittel
The Kittel Collection is a series of clothing pieces that explores the different ways clothing is used as a vehicle for meaning and identity within our tradition and literature. The kittel is a simple, white, garment used as a burial shroud, and customarily worn by men on various Jewish holy days. Each month, The Sisterhood…
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How Are We Getting Epicurious?
Last week’s column ended with a question: Why, of all the philosophers of classical antiquity, was it Epicurus whose name, in the form of apikoros, became a rabbinic byword for a religious skeptic or heretic? To this we might add a second question. Epicurus also lent his name to many European languages: English, for example,…
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Synagogues in the Sand
For most people, a trip to the Caribbean is all about sandy beaches, crystal-clear water and relaxing in the moment. But for tourists with an interest in Jewish history, the Caribbean is also home to some of the oldest Jewish communities in North America, dating back to the 1600s. Whether traveling alone or on one…
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Preaching to the Converters
Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policy-making in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa By David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis Stanford University Press, 216 pages, $30 In Herman Wouk’s autobiographical novel, “Inside, Outside,” Wouk’s alter ego falls in love with a gentile woman and is somewhat surprised to find that his grandfather, an Old World…
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Looking Back: March 2, 2012
100 Years Ago in the Forward The worst disgrace is to be a moron. According to the Talmud, a stupid person is like a dead man. So how does one become a knowledgeable, intelligent person? There’s no need to go to college or to night school; some people become educated by reading the kinds of…
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Choose Your Own Apocalypse
With nods to Stanley Kubrick and Cecil B. DeMille, the Forward’s artist in residence Eli Valley makes a choose-your-own adventure comic for Iran pundits. Video: Nate Lavey Eli Valley is the Forward’s artist in residence for 2011–2012. His website is www.evcomics.com and you can follow him at twitter.com/elivalley.
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Books Author Blog: Autumn in His Heart
Earlier this week, Adam Wilson wrote about Seinfeld, Moses, and hubris. His blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: I’ve thought a lot about Isaac Babel’s lovely characterization of the…
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