“A legion of spanking new white charter buses gleamed in the moonlight, standing by to deliver pilgrims to Uman. Since I was heading the same way, I asked if I might join them, but my gender made me forbidden cargo.
Ella Marx
Putting on The Moss Maidens—the production that won the Best Play and Best Ensemble awards at SheNYC, a recent theater festival—felt particularly cathartic for the play’s Jewish cast and crew members.
Pam Janis
My parents never spoke “Jewish” at home—they wanted their kids to be American. But the year the survivors lived with us, I learned Yiddish in teaching them English.
Jack Reimer
Feldman not only recovers these female characters but brings together the traditional rabbinic commentaries on these marginal or marginalized women.
Bob Mankoff
One thing most people don’t want explained are jokes. BUT, if a joke is already bona fide boffo funny, an explanation might help us appreciate it even more.
As Israel continues down a questionable political path, the once taboo question of cutting aid is suddenly on the table.
Like the previous dual strike, which happened during the industry’s transition to television, these simultaneous strikes are happening at a time of massive transformation in the medium.
Ella Marx
During the trial, prosecutors called on 60 witnesses, and survivors testified to their horrifying experiences inside the synagogue.
