Daily recommendations on how to stay engaged with the world in these times of social distancing and quarantine.
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Culture Daily distraction: See some animals, tell your Passover story, and jam out while you clean
Welcome to your daily distraction, our recommendations for ways to stay engaged and entertained while we socially distance ourselves to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak. You can find our past recommendations here; many of the opportunities we’ve highlighted are ongoing. I can’t believe it’s already Sunday. For me, time is starting to blur and I’m…
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Culture Daily distraction: Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Louvre and family game night
Welcome to your daily distraction, our recommendations for ways to stay engaged and entertained while we socially distance ourselves to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak. You can find our past recommendations here; many of the opportunities we’ve highlighted are ongoing. Shabbat shalom, we’re still staying at home. This week was interesting, nu? I finished watching…
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Culture Daily distraction: Honor Adam Schlesinger, recreate a masterpiece and explore haggadot
Welcome to your daily distraction, our recommendations for ways to stay engaged and entertained while we socially distance ourselves to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak. You can find our past recommendations here; many of the opportunities we’ve highlighted are ongoing. I recently learned something that makes me feel a lot better about everything going on…
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Culture Daily distraction: Mixology, ‘Hamlet’ and ‘All of a Kind Family’
. Welcome to your daily distraction, our recommendations for ways to stay engaged and entertained while we socially distance ourselves to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak. You can find our past recommendations here; many of the opportunities we’ve highlighted are ongoing. We’re close to the end of our third week of social distancing. In Denver,…
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Culture Daily distraction: Tomie dePaola, films from the Met vault and TikTok dances
Welcome to your daily distraction, our recommendations for ways to stay engaged and entertained while we socially distance ourselves to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak. You can find our past recommendations here; many of the opportunities we’ve highlighted are ongoing. And… it’s April. We hope that if you’re staying home with others they have not…
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Culture Daily distraction: A book talk, klezmer concert and exhibit of Soviet-Jewish art
Welcome to your daily distraction, our recommendations for ways to stay engaged and entertained while we socially distance ourselves to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak. You can find our past recommendations here; many of the opportunities we’ve highlighted are ongoing. We’ve spoken often, in this column, about the value of taking breaks when work life…
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Culture Daily distraction: Freud solves mysteries, an ‘I, Claudius’ podcast and letter-writing
Welcome to your daily distraction, our recommendations for ways to stay engaged and entertained while we socially distance ourselves to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak. You can find our past recommendations here; many of the opportunities we’ve highlighted are ongoing. Greetings to you from my home office. Judging by Twitter — the 21st century town…
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Culture Daily distraction: Take your kids — and yourself — to Lincoln Center
Welcome to your daily distraction, our recommendations for ways to stay engaged and entertained while we socially distance ourselves to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak. You can find our past recommendations here; many of the opportunities we’ve highlighted are ongoing. It’s Sunday. The weeks right now are long and taxing, so it’s especially important to…
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