Q&A
NBC’s Jacob Soboroff on the ongoing crisis of family separation
“There were multiple inflection points where this could have been stopped. What you ended up with was 5,000 kids that are gonna have lifelong trauma.”
Why Roy Cohn, a bully and coward, was also a victim
“For me he’s a victim of larger anti-gay bigotry that we know continues. It’s not just that he was a hypocrite; it’s that he was a tortured soul.”
She drew Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande’s new single — and ‘A Bintel Brief’
“I’m not easily surprised by surprising things,” Liana Finck said of her DM from Ariana Grande. so it’s just like “I was smiling very hard.”
Your questions about “Unorthodox” and leaving Hasidic communities, answered
More than 2,000 of you joined our virtual conversation last week titled “Unorthodox: Reality vs. Fiction.” Alexa Karolinski, one of the creators of the blockbuster Netflix hit, was joined by our Yiddish editor, Rukhl Schaechter, and three people who, like the four-part series’ title character, Esty, had left Haredi communities: Chavie Weisberger of Footsteps, a group that helps people make that transition; Rabbi Abby Stein, the author of “Becoming Eve;” and Eli Rosen, who acts in “Unorthodox” and also served as a consultant on the show.
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A budget Shabbat for the coronavirus
Artist Mira Lehr on Buckminster Fuller, the environment and blowing things up
“Art is usually on the cusp of things and artists very often are visionaries. I’m waiting for the vision.”
David Simon on ‘The Plot Against America’ and our crisis of democracy
“My father never let a Passover go by without delivering the line about ‘Freedom can never be entirely won, but it can be lost.’”
Why Theodor Herzl still matters
“Yes, he was a great man, yes he was a flawed man — in a way the flaws are what accounted for his greatness.”
How a Jewish New Yorker documented Muslim life under Trump
“The very first thing I filmed was on the way to the Women’s March,” said Zucker. “The Executive Order came out six days later.”
Q&A: Seth Rogen On Tikkun Olam, Anti-Semitism And Killing Hitler
“It’s confusing why anyone hates anyone that is different from them, but I think Jews are especially confounded by it.”
How Michael Bloomberg Keeps Reinventing Himself
“If there is a thread, it’s that he wanted to fix things. The engineer in him wanted to make the city work better.”