admin | May 25, 2021
It is almost twelve years since I wrote an article with the title - The Columbus Industry. There have been others - The Columbus Conspiracy, The Columbus Conundrum, The Columbus Improbability - but the one about the industry was more or less where it all started. And by it, I mean the determination to disprove that Columbus came from Genoa, my fascination with which lies with what can seem to border on the obsession of those who wish to do this, and all that there is riding on locating his birthplace somewhere other than Genoa
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admin | May 25, 2021
May 28 marks the 70th anniversary of the influential British radio comedy program The Goon Show, which inspired fans from the Monty Python group to John Lennon. The Jewish content of The Goons, comprising comedians Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers as well as the Welsh singer Harry Secombe, is usually overlooked amid the shows comedic chaos and anarchy. Milligan, the presiding genius over the surreal scripts, cherished the Jewish roots of his colleague Sellers, whose mother was of Ashkenazi and Sephardic origin
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admin | May 25, 2021
In the fights over the future of Israel and Palestine, in which enmities are often understood to be both ancient and eternal, Peter Beinart is the rare figure to have come unstuck. Having made his name as a stalwart of liberal Zionism and a prominent center-left supporter of the Iraq War, both as an editor of The New Republic and a familiar face on cable news, Beinart has spent much of the past decade reconsidering those positions. Last summer, he made a clean break.
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admin | May 25, 2021
Palestinian families are living in limbo as the conclusion of a long-running legal battle against their eviction from East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah district draws near. The fragile truce between Israel and Palestinian militant groups has brought uneasy quiet to the district, where fragrant citrus trees grow in courtyard gardens and cosy terraces overflow with flowering jasmine. The houses the Palestinians have lived in for nearly 70 years are filled with hand-carved furniture, ornate rugs and traditional embroidery.
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admin | May 25, 2021
Led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), in the House, and Bernie Sanders (D-VT), in the Senate, progressives in the United States are moving to block a $375 million precision-guided munitionsJoint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) sale to Jerusalem. The Washington Post broke the story that Congress had been notified of the sale, on May 5. The deadline for the pols to slash the sale, as a sanction, is up May 20
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admin | May 8, 2021
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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admin | May 8, 2021
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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admin | May 8, 2021
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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admin | May 8, 2021
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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admin | March 10, 2021
Tender red cabbage and golden sauted onions make a savory bed for meatballs drizzled with tahini sauce in this Shabbat dinner dish that mixes Jewish culinary traditions. Cabbage has been cultivated since ancient times. Several of todays most popular varieties (including red cabbage) were developed in medieval Germany.
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