In 2004, the stoic, cowboy-esque Clint Eastwood unexpectedly proved himself more Tevye the Dairyman than Dirty Harry. In response to a reporter’s question about the chances of his movie, Mystic River, winning the Best Picture Oscar, Eastwood cried, “Kinehora!” He explained that it was a Jewish expression used to ward ...
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 ...

How Philistine Became a Dirty Word by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil t’s a story nearly everyone knows: The young shepherd boy uses

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The (Jewish) Sixth Sense By George E. Johnson In his autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me, Marlon Brando writes at length about

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Venice, Harlem and Beyond   There are few words that so acutely symbolize discrimination as “ghetto.” It was coined in

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The Jewish Snitch by Sala Levin Earlier this year, Nechemya Weberman, a member of the Hasidic Satmar community in New

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Nobody Knows the Tsuris I’ve Seen… “Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen,” laments an African-American spiritual. In Yiddish, this feeling

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A Ghost from Our Past by Sala Levin Fans of the film-making, Minnesota-bred brothers Joel and Ethan Coen were transported

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Finding Faith in DNA Why do some people believe in God, while others don’t? Is it a person’s choice, the

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By Sala Levin You may know the story: Abraham, in an effort to convince his father, Terach, that idol worship

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