In his best seller The Hare With Amber Eyes, the writer and ceramicist Edmund de Waal traces the journey of his Jewish family and their art collection from the late 19th century to the 21st. The book combines history and memoir with a kind of object-oriented ontology, drawing parallels between the diaspora of Jews after World War II and the Ephrussi familys dispersed possessions (many of them looted by the Nazis). It begins when the author inherits a collection of Japanese netsuke, palm-size carved sculptures dating from the Edo period that had been with his Ephrussi relatives for generations
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The landmark TV series The Sopranos, whose six-season run came to an end in 2007, is getting a brief resurrection with The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel that begins airing in theaters and on HBO Max this Friday, Oct. 1
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Yom Rishon story was wrong I was quite surprised to read your Sept. 17 article on Yom Rishon School in Los Altos.
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Rabbi Marc Baker, the newish head of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, seemed to be everywhere this summer. At a vigil in Bostons Brighton neighborhood, denouncing the stabbing of a Chabad rabbi. At a media event for the New England Holocaust Memorial, with the governor of Massachusetts and mayor of Boston.
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The landmark TV series The Sopranos, whose six-season run came to an end in 2007, is getting a brief resurrection with The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel that begins airing in theaters and on HBO Max this Friday, Oct. 1
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JEWS IN SHANGHAI have been the subject of many memoirs and novels, especially when it comes to the more than 24,000 refugees who fled Nazi Europe during the 1930s. Kirsty Mannings The Song of Jade Lily (2018) and Rachel DeWoskins Someday We Will Fly (2019) are two recent novels that tell stories of Jewish refugees who fled to the Chinese city, one of the only places in the world that didnt require papers back then.
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In her aching, confessional Book of Esther, the author Esther David (her original family name was Dandekar) describes attempting to make aliyah via the Law of Return, which gives Jewish people from any part of the world the right to migrate to Israel. She was running away from India and her Bene Israeli community, which maintains the tradition that they are descended from 14 Jewish men and women from across the Arabian Sea who were shipwrecked on the Konkan coastline over 2,000 years ago
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By: Meyer Harroch New York Jewish Travel Guide sat down with Ms. Rita Mayer Jardim, Attorney at Mayer Jardim, to ask a few questions about Portuguese Citizenship for descendants of Sephardi Jews
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Parshat Vayigash deals primarily with the events surroundingJacobs arrival in Egypt.
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As President-elect Joe Bidens transition is kicking into high gear after the Trump administrations General Services Administration on Monday finally agreed to acknowledge his victory, we can report that at least five Jews will serve in top positions in the new administration: Ronald A. Klain as White House Chief of Staff; Antony John Blinken as Secretary of State; Janet L. Yellen Secretary of the Treasury; Alejandro N.
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