Chair and teacup from Texas synagogue hostage crisis to be displayed in exhibit – Religion News Service
admin | April 9, 2022
(RNS) Probably no event is more indelibly marked in U.S. Jewish life this year than the Jan
A thriller from Mexico and a debut detective novel: The Jewish books you need to know this month – Forward
admin | April 9, 2022
Welcome to your monthly tour of the Jewish literary landscape! I have four new titles to share and a special announcement we just launched our Bookshop storefront, where you can shop the books recommended in this newsletter.
Phillys Wilma Theater is returning a donation from a group close to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich – The Philadelphia Inquirer
admin | March 24, 2022
The Wilma Theater ended a partnership this month with an arts group backed by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich that was supporting the debut of a play in Philadelphia. The break, over a local production of The Cherry Orchard, is another sign of the difficulties of being associated with Abramovich, after the United Kingdom froze his assets there in sanctions issued March 10.
Watching From the Other Side: A Ukrainian American Perspective on the Invasion of Ukraine – Shondaland.com
admin | March 24, 2022
Less than a month ago, my biggest concern was finding a dependable job in Brooklyn, where I live. Now Im spending every night listening to the news, hearing all about the ways Ukraine, the country in which the majority of my biological family was born and raised, is being bombed and invaded. During the first few days of Vladimir Putins invasion of Ukraine, when I and most Americans first started learning about what was going on, there was a mix of reactions: outright shock, horror, resignation, and even some disturbing humor, in tweets that were sexualizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he stood strong in command of his country in peril, or by those who compared what was going on to scenes in Marvel movies
The View From Swamptown: Exploring the Morgenthau Women’s connection to Saunderstown – The Independent
admin | March 24, 2022
I think I can state with some confidence, that in the more than 25 years that I have been writing this column centered upon the history of our fair town, a 38-year-old high-end contemporary off of Plantation Lane in Saunderstown is indeed the newest house that I have ever focused upon.
Waiting for Bowman to finally acknowledge Israel – The Riverdale Press
admin | March 8, 2022
By SURA JESELSOHN When my substitute mailman could not differentiate between a slush pile in front of my door and the mail slot, I tried to contact my federal representative, Jamaal Bowman, by leaving a message per instruction at his Bronx office. I have not heard back
William P. Barrs Good Donald Trump and Bad Donald Trump – The New York Times
admin | March 8, 2022
One Damn Thing After Another begins with a fond evocation of Barrs childhood in a conservative family nestled in the liberal enclave surrounding Columbia University in New York City. His mother was Catholic, and his father Jewish (though he later converted to Catholicism), and Barr gives a lovely description of his elementary school education at the local Corpus Christi Church. (George Carlin went there too.
Is the Writing on the Wall for Denver’s Oldest Neighborhood? | Westword – Westword
admin | March 2, 2022
Curtis Park often gets lost in the history of Denver, overshadowed by the legendary stories about Five Points the official designation for the area in which it falls and the commercial boom in today's rapidly developing RiNo, a commercial label slapped on over the past fifteen years.
Improv Class Sparked Their Long-Term Romance – The New York Times
admin | February 28, 2022
When I told my family I met this wonderful woman at an improv class, they would say, Shes an actor? No, Id say, shes a doctor. And my family would laugh hysterically because in a Jewish family if you cant be a doctor, the next best thing is to marry one, he said
Opinion | Disabled Ancestry Should Be Embraced With Pride – The New York Times
admin | February 28, 2022
Our disability lineages can only be reclaimed through the stories we uncover. This means conceiving of disability as an identity like being queer, rather than reducing it to a medical condition. L.G.B.G.T.Q.+ people such as myself, who in the closeted past had no queer family members to look to as models, can now proudly find and claim their queer lineage, reclaiming and retelling family narratives to include their queer ancestors
