02
Nov
Sustainable Tzedakah
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elisniv
By Steven Philp Now that we have entered the month of November, many of us look forward to the prospect
26
Oct
14
Apr
Shtetl Life Reexamined
By Symi Rom-Rymer A picture is worth a thousand words, so goes the old cliché. But as Alana Newhouse’s recently
25
Mar
I Love A Parade
By Symi Rom-Rymer Living in a large, multi-cultural city like New York, you get used to the ethnic parades that
03
Dec
What the Minarets Ban Says About Europe
By Symi Rom-Rymer The recent ban on the construction of minarets (tall spires commonly found on Islamic mosques) in Switzerland
10
Dec
Impresario for the Lost Voices of Theresienstadt
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Mandy Katz
By Mandy Katz Perhaps an apt follow-up to my post Monday about a journey from the Holocaust to the Ivy
08
Dec
College Admissions? Of Buchenwald and Princeton
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By Mandy Katz Some of his Frankfurt gymnasium teachers ended up in Buchenwald, my Tel Aviv correspondent Ernest Stock writes,
26
Sep
Sarah Silverman's Great Schlep
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Mindy Gold
Trying to push American Jewish seniors to vote Democrat, the Jewish Council for Education & Research has enlisted Sarah Silverman
25
Jul
Beijing Olympics: Jewish Update
We are getting closer and closer to the Beijing Olympics next month, where all the Jews whose baseball teams have
23
Jul
Mob in Jerusalem Attacks Two Palestinians
Not long after Tuesday’s bulldozer attack, an Orthodox Jewish mob went after two Palestinians after a store dispute in Jerusalem,
27
Jun
The Google Seder
The e-mail invitation came at the last minute. Not that Google didn’t know Passover was on its way, but apparently