The Seder: Not Just for Jews Anymore
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Did you know that the three pieces of matzo used during Seder represent the holy trinity? Or that a leg of lamb on...
I Love A Parade
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Living in a large, multi-cultural city like New York, you get used to the ethnic parades that come through town. In early fall,...
The Jews of Modern Poland
By Symi Rom-Rymer
The New York Times recently published a piece recently about a former Polish neo-Nazi who discovered his Jewish roots as an adult and...
Oscar and the Jews
By Symi Rom-Rymer
This year’s Oscars brought us some surprises (Sandra Bullock), some truly painful dance sequences (I’m looking at you Adam Shankman), and some deserving...
How Do You Teach Human Rights?
By Symi Rom-Rymer
On International Holocaust Memorial Day (January 27) this year, a report from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) was released outlining...
Breaking the Silence
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Three thin little black books have been creating a firestorm of controversy in Israel recently. No, they have nothing to do sex scandals. ...
Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly and the Jewish Question
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Perhaps the winter weather is making people a little crazy or perhaps liberals, fed up with current political narrative, are just itching to...
The Mighty Mighty Chickpea
By Symi Rom-Rymer
I always thought that musicals could save the world if only given the chance. And thanks to Ari Sandel, I see I’m not...
A Double Standard?
Michael Kimmelman’s recent article, “When Fear Turns Graphic,” offered a peek into the process behind making political art, with the recent Swiss pro-minaret ban ads...
Jews Up For Grabs
By Symi Rom-Rymer
In advertising the November debate between Alan Dershowitz and Jeremy Ben-Ami, the 92nd St. Y framed it as a discussion over Israeli policy,...
Saviors in the Night
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Those seeking a Holocaust movie rendered in bold strokes of black and white, where the distinction between good and evil is clear and...
Hannah Rosenthal Under Fire
By Symi Rom-Rymer
The mock outrage and cheap scoring of political points that has ensued in the wake of a Haaretz interview with Hannah Rosenthal, the...