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Culture
What Ida gets right, and wrong
A Polish farmer standing shoulders-deep in a hole he has dug in wet, black dirt, searching for Jewish skeletons. As Poles uncover and handle Jewish bones, past sins, dirty conscience, betrayal, and buried grief return and have to be faced.
Decorating to improve your love life
Admit it. The first time you visit the home of someone you’ve just started dating, don’t you love to snoop around the place to get some clue about this potential mate?
Punch-card love: Finding a match before personal computers
A generation before JDate, there was the Jewish Singles Computer Service.
Ghosts of exile, examined
Roger Cohen is an observer of Israel and the Middle East whose voice is especially commanding, and not only because he writes for The New York Times.
Jewish slave owners and a seder for the ages
The son of a Jewish, slave-owning family from the South confronts two of his former slaves just as the Civil War ends in the play “The Whipping Man,” which played at the West Coast Jewish Theatre in Los Angeles, has been produced by theater companies around the country and is now being presented by the Pasadena Playhouse.
Lindsay Sloane got a personal bid for role in new CBS comedy
Lindsay Sloane made her acting debut in a TV commercial when she was 8.
‘Gett’ illustrates divorce inequality — a hot-button topic in Israel
You may not know the name yet, but if you follow Israeli movies, the face is unforgettable.
Son’s postcard to Lodz Ghetto resurfaces 72 years later
Almost 73 years ago, on March 21, 1942, Stefan Prager wrote a postcard from Sweden to his parents, who had been deported from their native Berlin to the Lodz Ghetto in Poland.