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Once More, Survivors Find Comfort in One Another
Allegra Tevet, like so many others, could not take the strange, hot, fall-afternoon sun this past Sunday. So my 81-year-old mother-in-law sat in the shade of a cavernous white tent as she looked up at a big video screen at Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel speaking from the plaza outside of the United States Holocaust Memorial…
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UJC May Shrink Jewish Agency Funding
On the eve of the annual gathering of North American Jewish charitable federations in Jerusalem, supporters of their main Israeli beneficiary, the Jewish Agency for Israel, are in an uproar over a proposal by fundraisers that could slash the agency’s funding. Federation representatives recommended this week that funding to their other main overseas partner, American…
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Dancers Kick Up Their Heels In Pursuit of a World Record
LAKEWOOD, N.J. — It was supposed to be one for the record books. Thousands of people from all over New Jersey descended on Sunday’s Garden State Jewish Festival in First Energy Park—home of the minor-league Blueclaws baseball team—in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records by creating the largest hora ever recorded….
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Sharing Painful Memories Reveals Many Unexpected Connections
I have just returned home after spending the weekend with several thousand fellow Holocaust survivors. We gathered in Washington, D.C., most of us brought together by the notion that this collective minyan may well be our last. We have reached our golden years — we who once lived as if each day, each hour, would…
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BACK IN BUSINESS
Following a tumultuous period in its illustrious history, the Judah L. Magnes Museum — which boasts of the third-largest Judaica collection in the United States — is celebrating its 40th anniversary and marking its reopening as an independent entity with “Brought to Light — The Storied Collections of the Judah L. Magnes Museum.” This is…
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Making a Film About Jesus Without Raising Hell
TORONTO — While filmmaker Mel Gibson faces charges of antisemitism surrounding his controversial upcoming film about Jesus, another movie producer is garnering praise for making a different movie about Jesus. Garth Drabinsky, a Toronto-based show-business impresario, is the producer behind “The Gospel of John,” a movie based on the highly polemical Gospel of John, the…
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At What Price Art?
In 1974, renowned architect Louis Kahn was found dead in a men’s room at New York’s Penn Station. The circumstances of the death of Kahn, a secretive man, only compounded the mysteries that surrounded his life. Bankrupt, he was on his way home from India, having completed plans for one of his greatest architectural achievements,…
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OUR GREATEST GENERATION
“As a Jew, it was Hitler and me. That’s the way I pictured the war.” — Theodore Diamond, U.S. Army Air Force For America’s Jews World War II was not just a fight for their country. It was also a fight against the global scourge of fascism that threatened their fellow Jews abroad. “Ours to…
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Moms’ Plight Spurs Action by Agencies (Correction)
Jonathan Wilner took the Disneyland photo that appeared with the October 24 East Village Mamele column. The October 24 article “Moms’ Plight Spurs Action by Agencies” misidentified New York’s Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. The Council is an independent organization with UJA-Federation affiliation. Melissa Oringer was incorrectly identified in the October 31 article “Nice Jewitch…
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PSALM 151 PSALM 151
Born in New York City, Alan Bernheimer graduated from Yale in 1970, and by the late 1970s found his home in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he still lives. There he joined a group of poets often called the “language school,” whose work is distinguished by a close attention to the puzzles and perils…
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IN OTHER WORDS…
Conspiracy Theories: It is, it seems, an age-old tradition: The more antisemitic the world gets, the more Jews try to figure out why. Recent headlines have made for many a wrinkled brow: A German parliamentarian calls Jews “a race of perpetrators,” and he’s offered ideological support by a commander of an elite German special-forces army…
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