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April 13, 2016
Haters, meet Najia
“I wanted to become someone,” the young Afghani woman told me, matter-of-factly. “I wanted to grow.”
Iranian-Jewish community embraces a vision of training the visually impaired to teach music
It was a talent show that had to be seen. Or, well, not.\n
Jerusalem Quartet: From teenagers having fun to internationally known Israeli string ensemble
Bands formed in their members’ teen years rarely survive and thrive into their adulthood.
Culturally rich history of Jerusalem is literally in the woodwork
When it comes to the Middle East, and especially the city of Jerusalem, everything in the built environment has a significant historical subtext, as we are eloquently reminded in “Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City” by Adina Hoffman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a superb and sharp-eyed account of “burials, erasures, and attempts to mark political turf by means of culturally symbolic architecture and hastily rewritten maps,” as Hoffman puts it.
Alan Dershowitz discusses Jews in Europe, “The People vs. O.J. Simpson” and more
Anti-BDS bill escapes legislative gridlock
For more than three months, a bill that would counter the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement was stalled in California’s legislature.
Redefining the Doreh
I remember Saturday nights at my grandparents’ house — thin clouds of cigarette smoke lingering in the air, the sound of shuffling cards and dice rolling over a mahogany backgammon table, the smells of mixed perfumes and glamour.