The Seder as Fixing the Sin of Joseph and his Brothers -by Rabbi Hyim Shafner
Rabbi Hyim Shafner
May 4, 2016
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Books
Walter Kohn, refugee and Nobel Laureate, dies at 93
Tom Tugend
April 29, 2016
Nobel Prize winner Walter Kohn, who fled Nazi-ruled Austria one month before the start of World War II, died April 19 at his home in Santa Barbara. He was 93.
Probing the minds of Nazi war criminals
Jonathan Kirsch
April 27, 2016
Dr. Joel E. Dimsdale is a psychiatrist who has long specialized in the “coping behavior” of concentration camp survivors.
Joel Grey: More than just a master of ‘Cabaret’
Jewish Journal
April 27, 2016
In “Master of Ceremonies” (Flatiron Books), Joel Grey has written an unexpectedly exquisite memoir about the life he has led as a closeted gay man growing up during a time when being gay was fraught with excessive difficulties and danger.
Anne Frank’s tree: Two Holocaust picture books
Jewish Journal
April 27, 2016
In 2010, the aging horse chestnut tree located outside the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam collapsed and died.
Jews could laugh everywhere, even in the Holocaust
Michael Berenbaum
April 27, 2016
Chaya Ostrower, “It Kept Us Alive: Humor in the Holocaust,” Translated by Sandy Bloom. (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2014) pp. 439.
Passover ‘On One Foot’: Books for kids
Jewish Journal
April 14, 2016
The newest Passover picture books for children include colorful depictions of holiday rituals, such as opening the door for Elijah, properly preparing for a family seder and the true meaning of “Dayenu.”
A haggadah for a ‘New World’
Jewish Journal
April 14, 2016
Ilan Stavans, whose “The New World Haggadah,” illustrated by Gloria Abella Ballen, has just been released by Gaon Books, feels the time has come for the diversity of the modern Jewish experience to be reflected in the haggadah we read at our Passover seders.
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