29
Mar
Book Review | Sifting Through Memory with Cynthia Ozick
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By
Dara Horn
Antiquities is peak Cynthia Ozick. This novel is a tiny peephole into the purpose of living in a world that outlasts us.
25
Mar
‘American Baby’: Ethics of Jewish Adoption Explored Through a Tragic Family Story
Best-selling author Gabrielle Glaser’s new book, American Baby, starts with a dying cantor’s search for a mother he never met. It shares the intimate, intricate...
24
Mar
The Superhero Haggadah: When Monoculture Meets Mono-Judaism
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By
Sam Gelman
We live in a disjointed media market. Gone is the monocultural dominance and the sense of camaraderie you and your coworkers would feel as you...
23
Mar
My Mother’s Three Seders
Though Rachel never felt it, her family was poor. She liked visiting friends who came from smaller families, had more room in their homes, and...
23
Mar
Talk of the Table | The Horseradish Chronicles
I slumbered eyes-open through childhood seders, bored out of my mind, wondering if that meant I was the Wicked Son, or in my case, the Wicked Daughter, who counted even less.
23
Mar
Charoset From Around the World
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By
Moment
There’s more to charoset than just apples, walnuts and sweet red wine. Chef Vered Guttman demonstrates how this symbolic Passover food is prepared around the world. She also makes homemade horseradish and other Passover specialties.
22
Mar
How the Biden Administration Is Shaking Up Their Israel Stance
Elections have consequences, as the saying goes, and among these consequences is the reshuffling of power within the Washington inner circle. This is true not only for politicians who either move up the influence ladder or descend toward irrelevance but also for those in the policy advocacy game.
21
Mar
Visual Moment | Sacred Art from an Italian Ghetto
In the middle of the 18th century in the city of Ancona on the Adriatic coast of central Italy, a young Jewish girl, about age 15, produced a stunning work of embroidery.
21
Mar
Poem | The Mocking Bird
How is my desire lost? It pours out of my body.
19
Mar
Tango Shalom | The Dancing Rabbi of Crown Heights
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Dina Gold
Tango Shalom
Released February 11, 2021
1 hour 55 minutes
Directed by Gabriel Bologna
Convivencia Forever Films
Comedy, Family, Dance: English
Hasidic rabbi Moshe Yehuda is a father of five whose...
18
Mar
Beshert | “It’s Rare to Meet a Kindred Spirit…”
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By
Gina Roitman
In 1993, my PR agency was launching a German company’s product. I was collecting the team at Montreal’s Dorval airport. Two men were arriving from...
17
Mar
David Duke Abroad
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By
Liam Hoare
David Duke established another life for himself in Austria—and remained undisturbed in his Alpine paradise.