16
Aug
Julian Bond, 1940-2015
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Sala Levin
Julian Bond, former chairman of the NAACP and civil rights leader, died Saturday at age 75. In May, Bond appeared at a Moment event held...
06
Aug
A Great Civil Rights Partnership: A Moment Photo Symposium
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Moment
A Moment photo symposium in honor of the struggle for racial equality.
05
Aug
An Activist Remembers Her Civil Rights Journey
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Anna Isaacs
“I wanted readers to see and feel what it was like to be a child subjected to intensive bombing,” writes Marione Ingram, who as a child survived the Allied bombing of Hamburg, Germany, in 1943.
03
Aug
European Maccabi Games Come to Berlin
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The symbolism of holding an international Jewish sporting event at Berlin’s Olympic Park—built by the National Socialists for the 1936 Olympics, from which Jewish athletes were excluded—was lost on no one.
29
Jul
‘Oriented’ Examines What it Means to be Gay and Palestinian in Israel
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Two years ago Jake Witzenfeld, a new Jewish Tel Aviv transplant from England, discovered Qambuta Productions—a fresh, subversive and artistic Palestinian voice on YouTube that uses parody to illustrate social and political issues in the Arab community.
28
Jul
Edward Hirsch — Poet Laureate of Grief
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As Hurricane Irene descended on New York City in 2011, acclaimed poet Edward Hirsch received a text message from his only son Gabriel that he would be home in an hour. That was the last time he would hear from him.
23
Jul
Reunited in Reunified Berlin
Nadine Epstein returns to a changed city.
22
Jul
Speaking Volumes // Austin Ratner on E.L. Doctorow
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navid
Many writers seem daunted by the autobiographical novel—ashamed to write of themselves, as if that were either self-indulgence or exploitation. And of course with James Joyce and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a paragon, many do not even dare to try. But Joyce didn’t frighten off E.L. Doctorow, who mined his own Depression-era childhood in New York for the 1986 National Book Award-winning World’s Fair.
20
Jul
Jewish Organizations Tackle Prison Reform
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Prison reform is having a legislative moment — a step in the right direction, Jewish organizations say.
16
Jul
Book Review // Lincoln and the Jews: A History
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In this probing, lavishly illustrated volume, the historian of American Jewry, Jonathan Sarna, and Benjamin Shapell, a leading collector of Civil War documents and artifacts, interweave two texts: a chronicle of Lincoln’s cordial relations with Jews and an extensive gallery of letters, photos and prints.
16
Jul
Book Review // Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist
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In November 1938, as Hitler was preaching his gospel of hate, French Prime Minister Léon Blum delivered a speech to the International League Against Anti-Semitism about “the tragic Jewish question.” Urging European nations to open their doors to the growing number of Jewish refugees who had been condemned “to a bitter and unfortunate fate,” he left no doubt about his identity…
16
Jul
Book Review // The Pawnbroker’s Daughter: A Memoir
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The recently published posthumous publication, The Pawnbroker’s Daughter: A Memoir, draws attention to the powers of endurance of the American Jewish poet Maxine Kumin (1925-2014). The Yiddish word for strength, koyach, might have been the middle name of Kumin, a skilled swimmer and horsewoman who battled back after a near-fatal carriage-driving accident at age 73