Mark of the Werewolf
Michael Aushenker
July 25, 2002
Perlin was encouraged to practice something other than Judaism: \”I always wanted to draw,\” Perlin said.
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Ghosts of Passovers Past
Amy Klein
March 28, 2002
I have never quite gotten used to celebrating two seders.
After doing only one seder for each of the nine Passovers I was in Israel, the second night now seems like religious deja vu, a \”Groundhog Day,\” where I\’m setting the table yet again, rereading the haggadah and singing the same songs, thinking that if only I get it right this time, I won\’t have to relive the night once more.
A Boy and His Golem
Tom Tugend
August 9, 2001
\”Snow in August\” is an offbeat TV movie, part gritty reality and part fantasy, at the center of which is the curious friendship between an Irish Catholic altar boy and a refugee rabbi in post-World War II Brooklyn.
The Divorce Force
Jewish Journal
March 19, 1998
Gangs of masked, Yiddish-speaking thugs in Brooklyn have been abducting Orthodox Jewish men and beating them savagely to force them into granting their wives a religious divorce,or get, according to several men who say they were victims of such assaults.The beatings allegedly were ordered by an Orthodox rabbinical court.\n
Of Morality and Memory
Tom Tugend
September 18, 1997
Carole Braverman\’s play revolves around the lives of four women,living in 1980s Brooklyn, and examines the degrees of separation in their willingness to face personal and global tragedy unflinchingly.\n
Cleared of Charges?
Tom Tugend
September 11, 1997
Charges against a Brooklyn Chassidic rabbi of groping a 15-year-old girl during a transpacific flight were part of an extortion plot and will be dismissed by federal prosecutors.
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