In the Mag

We already have heritage trips to Israel, so why not Jewish heritage trips to the Diaspora? Israelis could learn about Jewish progressive politics and minority rights – and take…
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Robert Alter is a distinguished literary critic who has written extensively on European and American literature. He first emerged on the scene of biblical studies with his…
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The world of Michael Feldman (Lior Ashkenazi) is shattered by a single buzz at the door. Soldiers have come to tell Michael and his wife Dafna (Sarah Adler) that their teenage son…
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Folksong and its relatives, frequently popular responses to contemporary events, can offer fascinating insights into the lives of their composers and audiences. Vivi Lachs has…
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Arthur Miller died in 2005 but the Jewish-American playwright’s legacy lives on nowhere more fully than in England, where Miller has long enjoyed a critical reverence and…
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In his new graphic biography, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth, Ken Krimstein imagines Hannah Arendt’s life, from her birth in Germany in 1912 to her death in…
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My mother prepares a cake that makes people forget. They forget their troubles, their diets, and their calorie count. They forget they only came by for a minute – they had other…
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Again the mighty Levi  a handsome devil in tight jeans  a scholar of pajamas and the law.  Again he comes to the door  in a tallis or a t-shirt  the brute of termination  marshal…
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"Will this take long?”  “Thanks for coming everyone.”  “Was Legal on the list?”  “This isn’t really an issue for Legal.”  “You made it sound...”  “Urgent, I know.…
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The Jewish Museum occupies a 1908 French Renaissance chateau on Fifth Avenue. Originally the home of the banker Felix Warburg, in 1944 the mansion was given to the Jewish…
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