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Culture A Jewish poet of survival, Louise Glück is an incredibly timely Nobel choice
For new readers and longtime readers, one of the great pleasures of Glück’s work is following her progression as a poet
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The Schmooze Five ways to run a presidential debate like a Shabbat dinner table
Susan Page, a “Midwest nice” native of Wichita, Kan. asked some good questions during Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate. But when it came to holding her ground against overtalking from Vice President Mike Pence, she failed miserably. While the ground rules stipulated equal speaking time for each candidate, Pence, who delivered each answer in the…
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Culture Pence’s debate fly has a Talmudic ancestor
Yesterday during the 2020 Vice Presidential Debate, a fly breached a plexiglass barrier amid a miasma of droplets and planted itself firmly on Vice President Mike Pence’s head for two full minutes as he nattered on about law enforcement. Surely you noticed, have seen the memes, the analysis and the instant Twitter account — but…
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Fast Forward Heshy Tischler has a ‘snitch list’ for journalists and critics he wants to be quiet
Heshy Tischler, an aspiring politician and the de facto leader of the protest movement which has spread through Orthodox Brooklyn the past two nights in response to New York’s new COVID-19 restrictions, told reporters that he has a “moser” list. “Moser” is a Hebrew term for one who informs on the Jewish community to outside…
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Culture Louise Glück, Jewish poet of classical themes, wins the Nobel Prize
In the maelstrom of coronavirus, Borough Park protests and vice-presidential debates, finally some good news: Poet Louise Glück has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The granddaughter of Hungarian Jews who ran a New York grocery, she is the first Jewish literature laureate since Bob Dylan, who took the prize in 2016. The Swedish…
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Fast Forward Trump White House brokers the (etrog) deal of the century
WASHINGTON (JTA) — There was a hard deadline to meet and the job involved delicate international negotiations, but the Trump administration’s top Middle East envoy got on the job. Thanks to Avi Berkowitz, Sukkot was was saved for tens of thousands of New York area Jews. Fox News reported Wednesday that Berkowitz led a successful…
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News At vice presidential debate, Pence invokes ‘Jewish grandchildren’ in defense of Trump
During Wednesday night’s Vice Presidential debate between Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence, one moment in particular caught the attention of Jewish viewers. Asked about President Trump’s history of obfuscation when asked to decry white nationalists and white supremacists, Pence invoked the president’s Jewish grandchildren in his defense. “Your concern that he doesn’t…
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Fast Forward Orthodox journalist attacked, chased, called ‘Nazi’ at Jewish Borough Park protest
An ultra-Orthodox journalist who covers the religious Jewish community was set upon by participants in a protest against new coronavirus restrictions after the event’s leader ordered the crowd to chase him away. Jacob Kornbluh, who lives in Borough Park, Brooklyn, was covering an event organized by Heshy Tischler, an aspiring politician. Tishcler has recently risen…
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Yiddish ווידעאָ: חסידישער געזעץ־געבער בעט דעם עולם אויף ייִדיש צו טראָגן די מאַסקעסWATCH: Hasidic legislator urges his constituents in Yiddish to wear masks
אַרהון ב. ווידער גלייבט אינעם כּוח פֿון די מאַסקעס, כאָטש ער איז אַליין ניט מסכּים מיט די „גזירות“ פֿון דער רעגירונג.
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