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2014 September/October, Arts & Culture, Visual Moment

Visual Moment // Pink Phones, Midcentury Modernism & More

July 25, 2019
By Diane M. Bolz
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Did you ever wonder about the origin of the distinctive round thermostat that regulates the temperature in your home? Or how about the pink Princess phone every teenage girl once coveted or those eye-catching images that promoted such films as The Man with the Golden Arm, Anatomy of a Murder or Exodus? All these items, it turns out, are evidence of the vital role that Jewish architects, designers and patrons played in the development and dissemination of modernism in America.

2014 September/October, Israel, Jewish World

Opinion // Max Steinberg: A Real American Hero

May 30, 2017
By Naomi Ragen
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Not so long ago, American Jewish children learned from their parents to love the State of Israel. Even secular, assimilated American Jews gave their kids charity boxes to collect nickels and dimes to plant trees there, as the parents do in Woody Allen’s 1987 film Radio Days. But that was a time when Jews remembered the tragedy of the ship St. Louis, with its hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazis and not a single country willing to take them in.

2014 September/October, World

Opinion // Why Obama is Wrong about Illegal Immigration

May 30, 2017
By Marshall Breger
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Since last October, more than 57,000 unaccompanied children—twice as many as the previous year—have crossed our borders illegally. Unsurprisingly, the flood has raised conflicting attitudes among Americans.

2014 September/October, Israel

Opinion // Israel: “Close to Perfect”

May 30, 2017
By Shmuel Rosner
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Rachel Fraenkel, mother of Naftali Fraenkel, one of the three Israeli teens whose kidnapping and murder started the current crisis, recently gave her first lengthy interview to Yediot Daily. It was clear that she is an impressive woman, wise, calm and sober, and that her tragedy has catapulted her into a yet-to-be-defined leadership position. But what people all around me are still talking about is the way this interview ended.

2014 July/August, Arts & Culture, World

Book Review // Trieste

May 31, 2017
By Erica Wagner
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Creating art from the events of the Holocaust remains as daunting as ever. Soon, those awful events will move beyond the reach of living memory while the need for testimony grows more pressing, not less. But the responsibilities of art are different from those of history: Theodor Adorno’s much-misrepresented dictum that “it is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz” can simply be used as a lazy shorthand for refusing to engage with difficult and challenging creations.

2014 July/August, Arts & Culture

Book Review // The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews

May 31, 2017
By Richard Bernstein
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At the very beginning of his probing, disturbing account of the Nazis’ destruction of Dutch Jewry, Bernard Wasserstein asks what is no doubt the most terrible question that can be posed about Jewish behavior during the Holocaust: “Confronting the absolute evil of Nazism, was there any middle road between outright resistance and abject submission?”

2014 July/August, Arts & Culture, Visual Moment

Visual Moment // Chagall’s Orphée

July 25, 2019
By Diane M. Bolz
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“Marc loved the small-town feeling of Georgetown,” Evelyn wrote. “He liked being able to greet our neighbors and walking to Woolworths to buy postcards and an art-supply store to buy more brushes.” One day he told her that he wanted to “do something for the house,” but later, he said, “No, the house is perfect; I’ll make a mosaic for the garden.”

2014 January-February, Arts & Culture, Big Questions, Jewish World

How Has Jewish Thought Influenced Science?

July 25, 2019
By Moment
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How has Jewish thinking influenced science? Moment poses the question to scientists and scholars Yehuda Bauer, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Edward Bormashenko, Jeremy Brown, Allison Coudert, Noah Efron, Shmuel Feiner, Gad Freudenthal, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Susan Greenfield, Menachem Kellner, Daniel Matt, Judea Pearl, Jonathan Sacks, Gerald Schroeder, Howard Smith, Hermona Soreq, Moshe Tendler and Yossi Vardi.

2014 July/August, Jewish World

Mohammed Dajani Daoudi // Evolution of a Moderate

May 31, 2017
By Nadine Epstein
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Once a radical Fatah leader, the Palestinian professor has come under fire for taking his students to Auschwitz to teach reconciliation.

2014 July/August, Arts & Culture, Talk of the Table

Talk of the Table // Paprika

July 25, 2019
By Joan Nathan
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Among the trendy ingredients today’s chefs are adding to their repertoires, paprika is the latest darling. Cooks either sprinkle the bright red spice—made of dried and ground red chili peppers—on top of their creations or swirl it with oil to add a crimson hue.

2014 July/August, Arts & Culture, Jewish World

Book Review // A Bintel Brief

May 31, 2017
By Clyde Haberman
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A heartfelt letter sent to a newspaper editor a century ago has long stayed with me. I happened upon it decades after it was written. With his soul in torment, a New York factory owner had turned to the editor for advice. He was not paying his workers— like him, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe—nearly enough for them to make ends meet. He had a business to run, and there were limits to the wages he could afford. Still, the suffering of his employees and their families tore at his heart. What should he do?

2014 July/August, Jewish Word, Jewish World

Jewish Word // Haredi

June 19, 2023
By Sala Levin
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The term haredi comes from the Hebrew root meaning “to tremble” (hared) and a verse in Isaiah, in which God says, “But to this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at my word.” “Haredi really means those who are in awe, or who tremble or quake,” says Samuel Heilman, professor of sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York.

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