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Meet Our Production Assistant, Zadie
Earlier this week, Avrom Honig shared a behind-the-scenes look at the photoshoot for “Feed Me Bubbe,” and talked about coming to the big city. His 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…
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New Book Details Orthodox Response to 9/11 Attacks
A book, “Contending With Catastrophe: Jewish Perspectives on September 11th,” issued by the Beth Din of America records the halachic and philosophical responses of Orthodox rabbis to the devastating consequences of 9/11.
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Don’t Call the Rabbi, Make Your Own Rituals
When I was in day school, we were taught that one of the differences between Judaism and Christianity was that we Jews needed no intermediary between ourselves and God. Christians had Jesus, of course, but also priests and ministers, and in some cases entire church structures who interpreted God’s word, conveyed prayers and generally acted…
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Daniel Libeskind Plans With Acute Sense of History at Ground Zero
Perhaps it’s for the best that an itinerant Yiddish storyteller did not design the new buildings on the World Trade Center site. But the grandson of one, Daniel Libeskind, is strongly channeling his grandfather as he oversees the implementation of his master plan for the site. Making buildings is, for Libeskind, like telling stories about…
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September 16, 2011
100 Years Ago in the Forward The most popular swindle currently in practice on the Lower East Side, according to an assistant district attorney, is known as the “Doctor Swindle.” What happens is that a well-dressed man knocks on people’s doors and informs them that he is a doctor from the board of health and…
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Books Gabrielle Giffords Memoir Out November 15
The previously announced memoir by Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, will be out November 15 according to its publisher, Scribner. The memoir will be titled “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope.” The book is said to focus on Giffords and Kelly’s relationship, from their courtship until after the January 8 shooting…
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Books Feed Me Bubbe’s Journey to New York City
Yesterday, Avrom Honig shared a behind the scenes look at the photoshoot for “Feed Me Bubbe.” His 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: If you want to know more about…
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Némirovsky’s Book Reveals Passion for Country That Betrayed Her
All Our Worldly Goods By Irène Némirovsky, translated from French by Sandra Smith Vintage, 224 pages, $14.95 ‘All Our Worldly Goods” opens with fireworks. Two families, the Hardelots and the Florents, gather on a Normandy beach to watch a pyrotechnical display light up the late-summer sky. Indifferent to Simone Renaudin, the pudgy, sullen heiress his…
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Compelling Images of Jewish and Israeli Dance
Judith Brin Ingber, a dancer, choreographer and author, recently published a new book, “Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance,” in which she introduces readers to a wide range of dance styles and histories. The Forward sat down with Brin Ingber to discuss her book and to look through the dozens of photos and illustrations that accompany…
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Books Yid Lit: Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman does not tire of his best-selling fantasy novels being called “Harry Potter for adults.” While “Potter” is marketed to children and happens to attract adult readers, “The Magicians” (Viking, 2009) and its new follow-up, “The Magician King,” are designed for adults. The books are filled with drinking, cursing and sex, and, things aren’t…
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Books The ‘Feed Me Bubbe’ Book: Behind the Scenes at the Photoshoot
Avrom Honig is the co-author, with his bubbe, of “Feed Me Bubbe” — originally a hit YouTube series, and now a book. His 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: Greetings,…
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