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Art The Jewish Museum’s new exhibit is barely Jewish. Does that matter?
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Culture This Crazy Website Is The Internet At Its Absolute Best
The internet can be a scary, terrible, racist, sexist, garbage-fire of a place (4-chan exists, lest we forget). But frequently, the internet offers up a site that can remind you of its incredible potential – its potential for delightful weirdness, its potential for the democratic proliferation of knowledge. I know that I’m a little (okay,…
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Opinion Avant-Garde Aliyah to Berlin
“There’s always this joke that half of Tel Aviv is actually here,” Liad Hussein Kantorowicz told me when I interviewed her in her Berlin apartment. The numbers back her up: According to the latest estimates, 15,000 to 20,000 people have left Israel in recent years to forge a new life in Berlin. Most of these…
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Culture The Return of Richard Foreman, Rabbi of New York’s Downtown Theater Scene
In the bad old days, when downtown Manhattan was still overrun by scruffy, industrious, half-lunatic artists exploring the possibilities of theater and performance with great purpose but no thought toward the market, Richard Foreman was our rabbi. Each spring, a new play written, directed and designed by him would appear at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the…
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Culture The Liberation of Helène Aylon
Whatever Is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist By Helène Aylon The Feminist Press, 350 pages, $29.95 Walking through the “Too Jewish?” exhibit at Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum back in 1997, surveying the artistic commentaries on popular tropes of American Jewish culture — big noses, Barbra Streisand,…
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