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What Israel means to me
Jewish Journal
April 19, 2013
Pinpointing what makes people so passionate about Israel is no easy thing, perhaps because there are so many options.
Books: Max Apple is a bard of the background
Sandee Brawarsky
January 17, 2007
One of the best American short story writers, Apple has just published \”The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories\” (Johns Hopkins Press), his first collection of stories in 20 years. He writes with the same playful imagination and comic intelligence as in his earlier stories, layered with irony and an infallible sense of detail.
Noah Bleich: A Man of Many Hats
Sarah Price Brown
December 28, 2006
An observant Jew, Bleich provides a Jewish rationale for his commitment. While Judaism teaches that each individual is unique and special, it also emphasizes community, he says.
Barri Evins: A Book Can Change the World
Peter L. Rothholz
December 28, 2006
Each Christmas, Barri Evins and a group of volunteers give away thousands of books at Head Start magnet centers throughout the Los Angeles area. At each center, volunteers greet each child individually, ask them their age and then present them with a brand new book especially selected for them.
No Rat King, no fairies — just one ‘MeshugaNutcracker’
Dan Pine
December 14, 2006
\”The MeshugaNutcracker!\” tells the tale of eight citizens of Chelm, the mythical shtetl of fools, who gather every year to perform at their Chanukah festival. Through the course of the two-act musical, each tells a story of Chanukah heroes from the time of the Maccabees through today.
Holy Doubt
Rabbi Debra Orenstein
December 7, 2006
This week\’s Torah portion contains a story that most of us skipped in Hebrew school — the story of Dina.
Hitting the century mark doesn’t stop this translator
Jane Ulman
December 7, 2006
Dobkin doesn\’t play bingo, and she doesn\’t own a television. She occasionally attends a lecture or musical event, but generally, when she isn\’t working, she is reading, usually The Forward in Yiddish or English or The Jewish Journal. She reads without glasses, except for very small print.
Theater: All in the ‘Herbicide’ family
Hank Rosenfeld
December 7, 2006
\”Herb is this wonderful combination of New York savvy, old school wisdom and outrageous life experiences,\” Kaminoff says. \”Imagine Garrison Keillor, only if he was a handsome Jewish guy from Brooklyn.\”
Will kill for laughs
Hank Rosenfeld
October 12, 2006
\”I Killed\” features headliners like Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Jonathan Winters and Shelley Berman for the first time telling tales away from the \”comedy caravans\” and \”yuk-yuks\” and even yuckier joints they endured while perfecting their craft.
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