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It's 1979, do you know where your Nazis are?

  • May 8, 2012
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By Symi Rom-Rymer By 1948, World War II had been over for three years, yet hundreds of thousands of refugees and displaced persons remained scattered throughout...

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When Twentysomethings Date

  • May 8, 2012
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By Symi Rom-Rymer Every documentary filmmaker fortunate enough to have a close relationship with his mother should include her in a film about his life.  Or...

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At Sanity Rally, Sense Through Satire

  • May 8, 2012
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By Symi Rom-Rymer In the weeks leading up to last Saturday’s Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, the media world was practically falling...

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The Hidden Israel

  • May 8, 2012
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By Symi Rom-Rymer A chubby young African boy dressed head-to-toe in an Israeli police officer’s uniform looks defiantly into the camera.  A teenage girl in a...

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Hasidim, Hipsters, and the New Crown Heights

  • May 8, 2012
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by Symi Rom-Rymer Hasidim and Hipsters can’t be friends, so says conventional wisdom.  But maybe they can eat together.  At least that’s what Danny Branover, principal...

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It’s cheese! It’s mustard! It’s…a knish?

  • July 27, 2015
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By Symi Rom-Rymer If you happened to be walking down Second Avenue in New York’s East Village last Sunday afternoon, you might have seen an...

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Textbook Tussle

  • May 8, 2012
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By Symi Rom-Rymer "No other country in the world, in its official curriculum, would treat the fact of its founding as a catastrophe," categorically stated Education...

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Boxing Gym

  • May 8, 2012
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By Symi Rom-Rymer Lord’s Gym, Austin, Texas: Thwack. Sssssss. Clang, clang, clang. Slapslapslapslap. In a small, white shingled building hidden behind a Goodwill store, posters of famous fights and fighters frozen...

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A Sukkah for the 21st Century

  • May 8, 2012
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By Symi Rom-Rymer When I think about sukkahs—which I admit is not that often—it is rarely in architectural or even creative terms.  As a child, around...

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A Film Unfinished

  • July 27, 2017
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By Symi Rom-Rymer In an East German archive, three reels of silent film lay untouched and forgotten amid the chaos of World War II and its...

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When Good Intentions Meet Reality

  • May 8, 2012
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By Symi Rom-Rymer In a recent posting on the Washington Post's OnFaith blog, a Rabbi and law professor recount their experience on a joint US Jewish-Muslim...

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When we talk about the Middle East

  • May 8, 2012
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By Symi Rom-Rymer I think Thomas Friedman can read my mind.  Just as I sat down to write this blog post, I came across a new...

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