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Mar
Lunch with an Auschwitz Tour Guide: A Personal Essay
By Arielle Silver “I used to be a tour guide at Auschwitz,” Timo said, and then rested his fork on
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Mar
Is it Time for Shylock to Retire?
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice: A Play For All Time? By Steve Frank Every year brings new productions of Shakespeare’s controversial
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Feb
Anat Hoffman Dares to Take On Israel’s Orthodox Establishment. Can She Win?
A visionary to some, a troublemaker to others, Anat Hoffman is leading the charge for women to be allowed to read the Torah at the Western Wall. The executive director of the Israel Reform Action Committee and spokesperson for Women of the Wall has become the face of the fight for religious freedom in Israel.
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Feb
Book Review | The Book of Genesis: A Biography
Jon D. Levenson reviews Ronald Hendel's new book, The Book of Genesis: A Biography.
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Feb
The Most Notorious Anti-Jewish Official in American History
Kaskel’s Chutzpah By Gary Stein “Your people must leave all the villages,” the government official barked. “The district
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Jan
Fiction // A Beggar’s Place
t’s raining again, and Estrella takes her green umbrella with her. Six, seven years ago, when she could afford to
15
Jan
The Spicy Tale of India’s Jewish Cuisine
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Sala Levin
Palak paneer, chana masala and the egregiously treif-sounding butter chicken may not scream “Jewish” and were highly unlikely to grace
11
Jan
Post-Racial Rabbis
One of the first things that six-year-old Alysa Stanton noticed when her family moved into a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in
31
Dec
Uncle Xenon: The Elemental Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks opens the door of his lower Manhattan apartment himself because his assistant, Kate Edgar, is in the emergency
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Dec
Book Review | Jacob’s Folly
A Bug’s Life 2.0 Rebecca Miller Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2012, $26.00, pp.337 Jacob’s Folly is the fantastically original story
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Nov
How Does Satire Influence Politics?
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Moment
The Intersection of Politics and Satire. A Moment Symposium Robert Mankoff Political satire is ridicule dedicated to exposing the difference