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Jews and dogs, unleashed

Jonathan Kirsch July 8, 2013

“The Elephant and the Jewish Problem” is the punchline to a hoary old Jewish joke, the point of which is that there is a Jewish perspective on every subject imaginable. The same point is made in a remarkable work of scholarship, “A Jew’s Best Friend? The Image of the Dog Throughout Jewish History,” edited by Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman and Rakefet Zalashik (Sussex Academic Press, $65, hardcover; $34.95, paper), a pair of self-proclaimed dog lovers who were inspired to explore what Jewish tradition has to say about dogs and Jews.

Uncorking Anaheim’s Jewish past — the vintage years

Jewish Journal July 2, 2013

Long before Tomorrowland, there was another land in Anaheim, created and inhabited by Jews, that as a child growing up there in the 1950s and ’60s I had not the slightest clue existed.

Timeline: A history of Iranian Jews

Jewish Journal October 10, 2012

722 B.C.E. After Shalmaneser V conquers the kingdom of Israel, a group of captive Jews said to be descendants of the 12 tribes of Israel is sent into exile in Persia.

Awards recognize Germans preserving Jewish history

Jewish Journal January 27, 2011

A woman who rescued a synagogue that had been turned into a barn was one of six recipients of the 11th annual Obermayer German Jewish History Awards. The ceremony, held Jan. 24 at the Berlin Parliament House, was one of several events commemorating the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet soldiers on Jan. 27, 1945. For the first time, Germany\’s main Holocaust remembrance event features a representative of the Sinti and Roma, or Gypsies. Zoni Weisz, a Dutch survivor, was scheduled to address Parliament and Chancellor Angela Merkel in ceremonies Thursday to be broadcast live.

Sholem Aleichem, Gogol Show Two Views of Shtetl Jews

Jewish Journal March 11, 2009

Russians, Jews and literature scholars get excited about jubilee years, and for those who fit any of these categories, 2009 is a big year. One hundred and fifty years ago this month, a writer who would immortalize the Russian Jew in literature, Solomon Rabinovich (1859-1916) — better known by his literary persona, Sholem Aleichem — was born in the town of Pereyaslav, near Kyiv. This spring also marks the 200th birthday of Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), who was born about 100 miles to the east of Kyiv, in the town of Sorochintsy. Gogol, too, helped to immortalize the Russian Jew in literature, but in a more problematic way: the Jews who crop up around the margins of his stories, most of them crafty market vendors, money-lenders and tavern keepers, are anti-Semitic stereotypes, an unsettling detail in the work of one of the greatest comic writers of modern literature.\n

Disraeli: The curious case of England’s Jewish prime minister

Rabbi David Wolpe December 25, 2008

Benjamin Disraeli was born Jewish, baptized as a boy but (mostly) considered himself to be Jewish. He famously proclaimed to Queen Victoria — who began by hating him and ended adoring him — that he was the \”blank page\” separating the Old and New Testaments.

Rahm Emanuel is a fighting policy wonk with a Jewish soul

Ron Kampeas, JTA November 13, 2008

One thing Rahm Emanuel is not, all agree, is the president-elect\’s conciliatory signal to the Jewish community after a campaign fraught with worries that Obama would tip toward even-handedness in dealing with the Middle East

‘A Secret’ lets French director explore his Jewish past

Tom Tugend September 11, 2008

More than 60 years have passed, yet French filmmakers are still wrestling with their country\’s less than heroic role under Nazi occupation during World War II.

VIDEO: The Tribe (The Barbie Doll and the History of the Jewish People)

Jewish Journal September 8, 2008

What can the most successful doll on the planet show us about being Jewish today? Narrated by Peter Coyote, the film mixes old school narration with a new school visual style. The Tribe weaves together archival footage, graphics, animation, Barbie dioramas, and slam poetry to take audiences on an electric ride through the complex history of both the Barbie doll and the Jewish people- from Biblical times to present day. By tracing Barbie\’s history, the film sheds light on the questions: What does it mean to be an American Jew today? What does it mean to be a member of any tribe in the 21st Century? Finally available fee online.

Jefferson was Jewish? Who knew?

Lloyd Garver March 16, 2007

Geneticists reporting in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology concluded that this Founding Father may have had a Sephardic Jew on one of the limbs of his family tree in the 15th century.

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Jews and dogs, unleashed

Uncorking Anaheim’s Jewish past — the vintage years

Timeline: A history of Iranian Jews

Awards recognize Germans preserving Jewish history

Sholem Aleichem, Gogol Show Two Views of Shtetl Jews

Disraeli: The curious case of England’s Jewish prime minister

Rahm Emanuel is a fighting policy wonk with a Jewish soul

‘A Secret’ lets French director explore his Jewish past

VIDEO: The Tribe (The Barbie Doll and the History of the Jewish People)

Jefferson was Jewish? Who knew?

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