19
Jul
Speaking Volumes // Anna Solomon on Unto the Soul
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Anna Solomon
Around the time I first read Aharon Appelfeld’s Unto the Soul (1994), I was just barely starting to write about Jews.
19
Jul
Q&A: Author Lauren Weisberger
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Anna Isaacs
In her latest novel, Lauren Weisberger offers a glimpse of the competitive world of women’s tennis.
18
Jul
Jewish Word // Bible
When biblical scholar Elsie Stern lectures about the ancient world at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, the first thing she does is hold up a Bible and tell her students, “For most of the first 3,000 years that these words were around, if you said ‘Bible,’ no one would have any idea what you were talking about.”
15
Jul
Israeli Fashion Takes Center Stage
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By
navid
If sabra chic once meant kibbutznik khaki, it certainly doesn’t today: Try sexy, innovative, sophisticated, multicultural—and infused with a quintessentially Israeli chutzpah.
13
Jul
Jewish Routes // Rhode Island
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On August 18, 1790, George Washington paid a visit to Newport, Rhode Island, shortly after the state had ratified the United States Constitution, to meet with politicians, businessmen and clergy—including Moses Seixas, an official of Congregation Jeshuat Israel.
12
Jul
Jewish Routes // Greater Hartford
Just outside of Hartford proper, Jewish families have intermingled with new immigrants over the years to form an unusually cohesive community in the suburbs of Greater Hartford.
12
Jul
Inside the Discovery of a Holocaust Escape Tunnel
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A team of archaeologists says they can now confirm a story that, until today, only survivor testimony had preserved: a tunnel, dug with spoons, that saved the lives of twelve Jews during the Holocaust.
12
Jul
Reimagining The Merchant of Venice — in DC
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by Katelyn Haas
As the stage lights dim, faint hip-hop can be heard in the background like a slow drumroll, setting the stage for the two...
08
Jul
Foods to Beat the Summer Heat
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Cold Borscht by Alex Witchel
YIELD: About 2 quarts
TIME: One hour
INGREDIENTS
10 large or 20 small precooked (canned or vacuum-packed) beets
1 onion, peeled and...
07
Jul
Remembering Elie Wiesel, 1928–2016
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How did the Nobel laureate influence your life? We want to hear your stories.
06
Jul
Books That Shaped Great Authors
We asked 20 prominent Jewish authors to discuss the books that shaped them.
06
Jul
Alan Furst Will Always Have Paris
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Sarah Breger
In each of Alan Furst’s 14 novels about spies—not spy novels, he insists there is a difference—characters inevitably end up dining at Brasserie Heininger in Paris. The fictional restaurant, based on the real Brasserie Bofinger, with its opulent marble staircase and shucked oysters, represents the glamour and the joie de vivre of 1930s Paris, a city he calls “the heart of civilization.”