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2010 July-August

Jewish Enterprise

  • November 2, 2012
  • By author-avatar Symi Rom-Rymer
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“Live from New York, It’s Saturday Night’s Jews!”

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Arts & Culture

A Boy Named David

  • July 13, 2023
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by Symi Rom-Rymer David, the recently released feature film directed by Joel Fendelman and written by Fendelman and Patrick Daly, sets out to tell one story,...

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2011 July-August, Arts & Culture

Roma Life Today

  • July 31, 2017
  • By author-avatar Symi Rom-Rymer
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Since the mid-1970s and early 1980s, Roma activists and groups such as the International Romani Union and Roma National Congress have worked to transform the scattered Roma into a cohesive political force. Nevertheless, the Roma remain fragmented and continue to face social exclusion, extreme poverty and discrimination.

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2011 July-August, Arts & Culture

Roma in the Holocaust

  • July 31, 2017
  • By author-avatar Symi Rom-Rymer
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What Jews call the Holocaust, the Roma (also known as gypsies) call Porrajmos, their “devouring.” Between 220,000 and 500,000 Roma were murdered by Nazi Germany and its sympathizers during World War II. Despite the enormity of these numbers, the Roma experience during the Holocaust is not widely known, even among the Roma themselves.

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Hate Speech in the Netherlands

  • June 28, 2011
  • By author-avatar Symi Rom-Rymer
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by Symi Rom-Rymer Last week, popular far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders was acquitted of all charges of inciting hatred against Muslims.  The allegations made against him...

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Shuttering Yale's Center on Anti-Semitism

  • June 17, 2011
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By Symi Rom-Rymer Yale University announced yesterday that it is closing its Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA). According to Thomas Mattia, an official...

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Is NPR Anti-Israel?

  • June 10, 2011
  • By author-avatar Symi Rom-Rymer
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by Symi Rom-Rymer It’s practically impossible for a news organization, especially one like NPR, that is considered left-of-center, to cover the Middle East conflict and not to...

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Lars von Trier Acts Up…Again

  • May 23, 2011
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By Symi Rom-Rymer This past week at the Cannes International Film Festival, Danish film director and provocateur Lars von Trier announced in a press conference for...

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History

Bosnian Jews and the Siege of Sarajevo

  • May 13, 2011
  • By author-avatar Symi Rom-Rymer
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By Symi Rom-Rymer People have wrestled with the question of what drives human beings to commit genocide since the end of the Holocaust.  Less often considered...

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Celebrating Bin Laden's Death

  • May 5, 2011
  • By author-avatar Symi Rom-Rymer
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By Symi Rom-Rymer When President Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden in the late hours of May 1st, the country breathed collective sigh of...

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Arts & Culture, History

The First and Final Nightmare

  • April 29, 2011
  • By author-avatar Symi Rom-Rymer
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By Symi Rom-Rymer When 69 year-old Sonia Reich ran out of her Skokie home late one February evening in 2001, no one knew why.  Insisting that...

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Reflecting on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

  • March 25, 2011
  • By author-avatar Symi Rom-Rymer
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by Symi Rom-Rymer One hundred years ago today, 146 immigrant women, primarily Jewish and Italian, died while trying to escape a fire that raged through the...

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