By Symi Rom-Rymer By 1948, World War II had been over for three years, yet hundreds of thousands of refugees
...By Symi Rom-Rymer Every documentary filmmaker fortunate enough to have a close relationship with his mother should include her in
...By Symi Rom-Rymer In the weeks leading up to last Saturday’s Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear,
...By Symi Rom-Rymer A chubby young African boy dressed head-to-toe in an Israeli police officer’s uniform looks defiantly into the
...by Symi Rom-Rymer Hasidim and Hipsters can’t be friends, so says conventional wisdom. But maybe they can eat together. At
...By Symi Rom-Rymer If you happened to be walking down Second Avenue in New York’s East Village last Sunday afternoon,
...By Symi Rom-Rymer “No other country in the world, in its official curriculum, would treat the fact of its founding
...By Symi Rom-Rymer Lord’s Gym, Austin, Texas: Thwack. Sssssss. Clang, clang, clang. Slapslapslapslap. In a small, white shingled building hidden
...By Symi Rom-Rymer When I think about sukkahs—which I admit is not that often—it is rarely in architectural or even
...By Symi Rom-Rymer In an East German archive, three reels of silent film lay untouched and forgotten amid the chaos
...By Symi Rom-Rymer In a recent posting on the Washington Post’s OnFaith blog, a Rabbi and law professor recount their
...By Symi Rom-Rymer I think Thomas Friedman can read my mind. Just as I sat down to write this blog
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