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How Jewish is it?
The Jewish Museum occupies a 1908 French Renaissance chateau on Fifth Avenue. Originally the home of the banker Felix Warburg, in 1944 the mansion was given to the Jewish…
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Bringing Up (Secular, Jewish) Baby
The night after the Pittsburgh shooting, I was trying to get my then-15-month-old daughter to sleep. As I sat there in the dark room, I thought about Robert Bowers, the attacker…
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1919
Ten thousand flames illuminated the Tower of London in commemoration of the centenary of the November 1918 Armistice between Germany and the Western Allies. British cultural spaces…
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The Hebrew Crossing
"Just had a hunch,” says Moshe Sakal, an Israeli writer, whose novel The Diamond Setter has recently been published in the United States to much acclaim. “I started working on the…
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DOES THIS OFFEND?
Naked walls adorned only with nails. A desolate student library, chairs tucked neatly under desks, a ghoulish sculpture wrapped head to toe in cloth at its centre. An empty…
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Night Notes
Insomnia is the last groover on the dance floor, still going at it when everyone else has collapsed in a heap, singing along to all the tunes, whooping it up, letting it rip. But…
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A Roadmap To Grief
On 13 September, 2015, James O’Donoghue heard the news that nobody can ever prepare for. It was the start of Rosh Hashanah, and around the world Jews of all levels of observance…
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The Amazing Spider-Man And The Incredible Ayn Rand
It was a tribute to the power of Spider-Man that his “co-creator” Steve Ditko received far more attention when he died recently than he ever had while he was alive. It marked the…
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The Clown of Kabbalah
One afternoon in 1980, the American writer Cynthia Ozick called on Gershom Scholem, the magisterial scholar of Jewish mysticism and messianism, then 83, at his home on Abarbanel…
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The Darkrooms Of Edith Tudor-Hart
What was Edith Tudor-Hart really like? What are my ties to her besides that we are relatives? She was 17 when she first left her parents’ house to take a course with Maria…
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