29 Apr Arts & Culture, History The First and Final Nightmare April 29, 2011 By Symi Rom-Rymer 1 comment Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram By Symi Rom-Rymer When 69 year-old Sonia Reich ran out of her Skokie home late one February evening in 2001, no one knew why. Insisti...Continue reading
25 Mar History, topics Reflecting on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire March 25, 2011 By Symi Rom-Rymer 0 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram by Symi Rom-Rymer One hundred years ago today, 146 immigrant women, primarily Jewish and Italian, died while trying to escape a fire t...Continue reading
18 Mar Politics Shalom Y'all March 18, 2011 By Symi Rom-Rymer 1 comment Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram By Symi Rom-Rymer “Stand up and introduce yourselves,” invited the speaker on the Bima. “I want to know where y’all are from.” Unac...Continue reading
10 Mar Politics Lessons for Germany's Turks from France's Jews March 10, 2011 By Symi Rom-Rymer 1 comment Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram By Symi Rom-Rymer In the midst of cheering crowds and booming music at an auditorium in Düsseldorf, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyi...Continue reading
17 Feb Latest, Politics Anti-Semitic Auto-complete? July 24, 2012 By Symi Rom-Rymer 2 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram By Symi Rom-Rymer Journalist Stéphane Foucart posed an interesting question in a recent article in the French daily paper, Le Monde:...Continue reading
11 Feb Arts & Culture, Culture, Latest People of the Book: Interview with Julie Orringer May 8, 2012 By Symi Rom-Rymer 4 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram By Symi Rom-Rymer Sitting on a faux cowhide bench with rock music blaring at full volume in a small coffee shop in one of Brooklyn’s h...Continue reading
04 Feb Arts & Culture, Culture, Latest The Black Bus May 8, 2012 By Symi Rom-Rymer 0 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram By Symi Rom-Rymer Anat Zuria has made her career exploring the stories of religious women on the margins of their world. Her latest w...Continue reading
28 Jan History, Latest The Holocaust Today May 8, 2012 By Symi Rom-Rymer 1 comment Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram By Symi Rom-Rymer January 27th marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops. In 2005, 60 year...Continue reading
24 Jan Latest, Politics Jewish Mother Redux May 8, 2012 By Symi Rom-Rymer 4 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram By Symi Rom-Rymer We’ve had the bad mother, the free-range mother, and now, thanks to Amy Chua, the Tiger Mother. From punishing late...Continue reading
16 Jan Latest, Politics Sarah Palin's Jewish Problem May 8, 2012 By Symi Rom-Rymer 9 comments Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram By Symi Rom-Rymer By now, anyone with access to the internet will know about the latest furor in the wake of the tragic shooting in Tu...Continue reading