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From its start in 1906, A Bintel Brief was a pillar of the Forward, helping generations of Jewish immigrants learn how to be American. Now our columnists are helping people navigate the complexities of being Jewish in 2020. Send questions to bintel@forward.com
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Jewish Journal-Massachusetts via JTA Its been nearly a decade since Phillip Weiner last lived in Sarajevo, where he served as an international war crimes judge. But Weiner has remained in touch with the Bosnian Jews he met there, and when he heard about their plight during the COVID-19 pandemic, he knew he had to do something.
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To measure was to apprehend and be made accountable, and nowhere was this more resonant than in the identification and classification of criminals. Doris Abravaya stood just over five feet tall and weighed less than 100 pounds when she graduated from Manhattan Technical High School in 1933. Her time there was documented on a single oversized card, preprinted with basic data entry fields school attendance logged in pencil, family facts registered in ink alongside cryptic acronyms and earnest equations, matriculation dates, and at least seven different addresses.
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Matt Baron/Shutterstock Alber Elbaz in 2016 - Matt Baron/Shutterstock Alber Elbaz, who has died of Covid-19 aged 59, was the affable creative director of Lanvin from 2001 to 2015, transforming one of the oldest fashion houses in France into one of the 21st centurys most exciting luxury labels, defined by classic cuts and lush fabrics, offset by striking costume jewellery and a romantic, off-kilter aesthetic. Elbaz created the gold dress worn by Meryl Streep when she accepted her Oscar for Best Actress in 2012 for The Iron Lady, while Kate Moss wore an Elbaz dress on her first night out after giving birth to her daughter, Lila Grace, and Tilda Swinton wore an Elbaz black bias-cut skirt and fawn chiffon blouse at the 2009 Oscars ceremony. Elbazs creations for Lanvin came with astronomical price tags (2,000 to 6,000 for an evening dress) but his designs were always practical, easy to wear and highly desirable
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James McHenry was a Maryland delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. He had been at the home of prominent socialite Elizabeth Willing Powel, which had become a prominent intellectual salon, especially during the heady days of the Convention. The most popular guest of Mrs.
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SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | May 3, 2021, 12:20 p.m. On the afternoon of November 8, 1918, a celebratory conga line wound through a three-mile-long throng on Manhattans Fifth Avenue. From high-rise windows, office workers flung makeshift confetti, first ticker tape and then, when they ran out, torn-up paper
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In mid-March of last year, against surreal new events occurring in the world, members of the Dublin theatre industry sought the warm camaraderie of peers inside a city centre pub. It looked like this might be the last night of live theatre for a while.
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The identification of all 45 victims from the Mount Meron tragedy has been completed, Israels Abu Kabir Forensic Institute said Sunday morning. The victims, all male, included brothers, children as young as 9, young fathers, and rabbis.
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Judaism, monotheistic religion developed among the ancient Hebrews. Judaism is characterized by a belief in one transcendent God who revealed himself to Abraham, Moses, and the Hebrew prophets and by a religious life in accordance with Scriptures and rabbinic traditions. Judaism is the complex phenomenon of a total way of life for the Jewish people, comprising theology, law, and innumerable cultural traditions
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It has been estimated that one-third of our Western civilization bears the marks of its Jewish ancestry.
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