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Comrade Labzik is incredibly expressive. He barks, wags his tail and runs through the halls of a public school with leaflets calling for a student strike. He is made entirely out of paper and, at his smallest, is half the size of a Scotch tape dispenser. He’s a puppy puppet — many puppets, really, all…
The Trump campaign ran a Facebook advertisement depicting Senator Bernie Sanders as a puppet master controlling presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday, one of a series of similar ads depicting politicians, including former president Barack Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, as puppeteers manipulating Biden. The trope of the “puppet master Jew” has…
A flier mailed to suburban New York voters by a Republican group depicts a local Jewish politician as a puppeteer, according to a WABC report. The flier, paid for by the New York Republican State Committee, depicts Yorktown Town Supervisor Susan Siegel manipulating three other Democrats. The flier accuses Siegel of making the Westchester County…
The goal was merely to promote clean energy in Israel — but television ads starring a pair of male puppets called “plug” and “socket” have instead unleashed a debate about gay pride. The puppets, named Sheka and Teka in Hebrew, have appeared in ads for the state-owned Israel Electric Corp. for more than a decade….
In the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre’s production of “Golem,” the people are puppets (except for a ghost), and the man of clay is danced by a human being (Steven Ryan). And that’s how it should be, for although he doesn’t speak, Golem is a stand-in for man. He’s a creature who didn’t ask to be born,…
אין דער סעסיע וועלן זיך באַטייליקן די פֿאָרווערטס־רעדאַקטאָרין שׂרה־רחל שעכטער און די יודאַיִסטיק־פּראָפֿעסאָרין לילי קאַהן
THE TEMPLE EMANU-EL STREICKER CENTER and Virtual
Aug 10, 2022
7 pm ET ·
Will the last Jew left in New York’s congressional delegation be reelected? Will New York’s senior congresswoman receive another term? Or will one of the newcomers upend Manhattan politics?