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2016 Guide To Cultural Arts: Yemenite Israeli sister act A-Wa

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Anna Isaacs

May 28, 2025

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"The Guide is an excellent representation of contemporary Jewish Cultural Arts to be celebrated throughout the entire Jewish community and beyond." —James Goldman, Park Avenue Synagogue, NY.

01 Jun

2016 May-June, Israel

Mount Zion: Jerusalem’s Wild & Sacred Backyard

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Eetta Prince-Gibson

May 8, 2017

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Located just outside Jerusalem’s old city walls, Mount Zion is home to King David’s tomb, the room of the last supper and a former mosque. Today, a tangle of neglectful Israeli authorities has allowed the site to become a beacon for ultra-nationalist religious Jews.

01 Jun

2016 May-June, Jewish World

Book Review // Rhapsody in Schmaltz

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Gloria Levitas

May 8, 2017

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Rhapsody in Schmaltz is not a book to devour in one sitting, nor should it be casually nibbled. Something of an oxymoron, this witty, entertaining volume overflows with food for thought and thoughts about food. It is stuffed with Talmudic arguments, biblical injunctions, slyly sexual linguistic tropes, and

01 Jun

2016 May-June, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Book Review // The Yid

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Josh Lambert

May 8, 2017

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Paul Goldberg’s debut novel, The Yid, may remind many of its readers of the movies of director and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino, and especially his 2009 World War II film Inglourious Basterds [sic], in which a French-Jewish cinema proprietor and a Jewish-American military squad work together to assassinate Hitler and others.

31 May

2016 May-June, Israel, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Book Review // Trouble in the Tribe

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Jay Michaelson

May 8, 2017

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If you ever want to convince someone not to be Jewish, invite them to an argument over Israel. The rancor, the ignorance, the accusations of racism and anti-Semitism—there’s a reason the topic is often banned from polite conversation: The conversation is rarely polite.

31 May

2016 May-June, Jewish World, Talk of the Table

Talk of the Table // Just (Deli) Desserts

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Rachel Ament

July 25, 2019

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Like much of the Jewish culinary canon, modern Jewish pastries were influenced by the world around them. The familiar cookies we see now in Jewish-style delicatessens were, in many cases, riffs on the desserts of various immigrant groups comingling with Jews in America...

31 May

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Opinion // The Right to Feel Secure

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Anna Isaacs

August 14, 2019

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"Israel’s new defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has promised the Israeli public that he, together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will make Israel stronger and more secure. I have never felt less secure."

24 May

2016 May-June, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

David Grossman: The Dissenting Patriot

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Marilyn Cooper

May 8, 2017

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In 1987, the editors of the Israeli weekly newsmagazine Koteret Rashit marked the 20th year of Israeli control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip by dispatching the young, up-and-coming novelist and journalist David Grossman to spend seven weeks among Palestinians and Israeli settlers living in the West Bank.

23 May

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Louise Lawrence Israëls’ Story: “Being Free Means Eating Cookies”

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Sala Levin

July 20, 2016

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"My name is Louise Lawrence Israëls and I am a survivor of the Holocaust."

16 May

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Interview: The “New Jews” of Latin America

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Anna Isaacs

July 20, 2016

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Journalist Graciela Mochkofsky discusses her account of unlikely faith in a drug violence-riddled Colombian city.

13 May

2016 May-June, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Visual Moment

Reframing Roman Vishniac’s Legacy

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Diane M. Bolz

July 25, 2019

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Maya Benton was a high school senior living in Los Angeles when the Russian-American photographer Roman Vishniac’s first posthumous book, To Give Them Light, came out in 1993. Renowned for his iconic images of Eastern European Jews taken between the two World Wars, Vishniac had died three years earlier at age 92.