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Kaddish for Carlin

Rob Eshman June 26, 2008

Everybody keeps asking me whether George Carlin was Jewish. \”I heard he was related to the Karlin-Stoliner rebbe,\” a colleague said.

‘Emerald Isle’ beckons Jews

Peter Rothholz February 1, 2008

There is a saying that in Ireland there are no strangers, only friends you haven\’t met yet.

On our visit we experienced a tangible expression of this in Kenmare, where perfect strangers went out of their way to help us get our laundry done and then volunteered to drive us back to our hotel when we couldn\’t find a taxi.

Better late than never, Theodor Herzl, children reunited in death; Ex-N.J. Governor McGreevey’s Isra

Jewish Journal September 28, 2006

Briefs courtesy Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

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 Wearing Down of the Green

Charles Marowitz November 12, 1998

It is hard to believe that \”The Cripple of Inishman\” was written only a few years ago by a contemporary Irish playwright, Martin McDonough. The play, which has just opened the Geffen\’s new season looks, feels and sounds like something Lennox Robinson or Lady Gregory might have dashed off for the Abbey Theater in the early part of the century. It not only is rooted in rustic, begorah Irish culture but reveals all the makeshift qualities of play-construction that we associate with that earlier, more primitive period.