• Sukkot holiday folklore. • Joshua Fishman writes on the new dangers of antisemitism. • Rukhl Schaechter reviews Peter Rosen’s documentary “Khachaturian,” the story of a talented Armenian composer who reluctantly became a posterboy for the Soviet ideal. • Mikhail Krutikov writes on Jewish studies in Russia and the politics that affect them. •Gennadi Estraikh…
Eliane Karp does not match the usual job description for first lady of Peru. In a country where machismo is alive and well, the first lady is expected to be native-born, Catholic, dark-haired and (very) quiet. Karp is Belgian-born, Jewish, red-haired and (very) outspoken. But she does not mind challenging people’s expectations. “They see this…
For Our Freedom and Yours: The Jewish Labour Bund in Poland, 1939-1949 By Daniel Blatman, translated by Naftali Greenwood Vallentine Mitchell, 242 pages, $26. * * *| The socialist Jewish Labor Bund came into being in October l897, when 13 men and women, representing several underground revolutionary groups, gathered in a shabby house in Vilna,…
Theological Iron Curtain: As former Vermont governor Howard Dean has ridden the wave of anti-Iraq war sentiment to the front of the Democratic presidential pack, pro-war party stalwarts have had a rough time carving a position palatable to liberals. The increasingly bogged-down occupation of Iraq may, however, prove to be a boon to at least…
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The founding director of the acclaimed Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, Debby Hirshman, was asked to step down the day before Rosh Hashana after 13 years of service, the Forward has learned. A JCC press release states that Hirshman resigned, but the co-chair of the JCC board told the Forward that the board had asked…
For Sukkot: Leviticus 22:26-23:44; Numbers 29:12-16. The haftarah: Zechariah 14:1-21. ——- The sukkah, ordered over the Internet and erected with some bickering, had collapsed once already. “Flanders,” said his sister, Ruth. “Will you come out here, please? Careful, Rolph. And Nadine, please don’t play with your dairy.” Flanders got up, strolled to the window and…
Twin Vandalism Incidents in Brooklyn At least 35 tires were slashed in a Jewish section of the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn over Yom Kippur, and a Jewish neighborhood patrol says a cup of urine was thrown into a synagogue while people were praying. Meanwhile, in Sheepshead Bay, another predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, six…
On the High Holy Days we go off to our own synagogues within our own denominations to pray and be inspired. But Sukkot offers the vision of one big sukkah, or one big shul, in which every Jew can fit and feel welcome. In the Babylonian Talmud, our rabbis state: “‘Every citizen shall dwell in…
Four years ago, a whopping 82% of Jewish voters in Philadelphia’s mayoral election cast ballots for Republican Sam Katz, who narrowly lost to Democrat John Street. Next month, Katz faces Street again in a rematch, but Street supporters say that many city Jews may abandon Katz this time around. Street adviser David Hyman, a former…
‘Wonder” is the word that most comes to mind when considering the life and work of Louis Armstrong. It’s not just that one of his last hit songs was “What a Wonderful World,” which, along with “Hello, Dolly,” vied with the Beatles for the top spot on the pop charts during the 1960s and had…
אַנאַ שטערנשיס האָט געזאַמלט הונדערטער בעל־פּהיִקע גבֿית־עדותן פֿון מענער און פֿרױען פֿון פֿאַרשײדענע סאָציאַלע שיכטן.
