Author
Judy Batalion
The Other Rosh Hashanah
The Brooklyn Book Fair is a pilgrimage for the secular
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Speed Shrinking
Participants choose a queue — depending on whether they want to solve or sell their personal stories — and move along, given three minutes with each head-doctor or literary guru.
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Dispatches
The Big Cheese
The wild, top-hat-and-jeans-clad compére jumped onto the stage to announce the 20 semi-finalists of the second annual New York Cheesemonger Invitational. The…
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Sarah Gliddens’ How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
Vertigo/DC Comics, 2010
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Notes From A Bimah
*severe spoiler alerts Ruthie, in her gold dress, mumbles a line of her speech about Judith and then is silent. Her hands tremble. We see her cue cards. But she’s not reading…
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Seeing Shlock: Jewish Humour and Visual Art
Excerpt: It is well known that Jewish humour is a not a common cultural fixture in Britain so imagine my surprise, while walking around the fashionable Hayward Gallery, when I…
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