richards | March 13, 2017
New York Times An Incisive Play About Hasidism , With Actors Who Lived It New York Times As a Hasidic Jew, she spent her childhood with eight siblings in the Yiddish-speaking and largely insular Satmar sect in Borough Park, Brooklyn. She had little knowledge of secular theater, film and television, which are frowned upon as sacrilegious.
richards | March 13, 2017
James tucked his side curls behind his ears and tore off his yarmulke as he left the hotel. Waiting for him in the parking lot in her car was a sultry brunette stranger, and they were both eager for their first date at an Italian restaurant in Omaha, Neb. They hit it off.
simmons | March 12, 2017
Israel beats Cuba in World Baseball Championship Tournament Many Israelis got a jolt of national pride when Israel upset fifth-ranked Cuba in the World Baseball Championship, beating them by 4-1. Israel stands at 4-0 overall in the series, one step closer to the tournaments semi-finals. Going into the tournament, Israel was given 200 to 1 of winning.
simmons | March 12, 2017
The Anti-Defamation League reported Tuesday morning that their regional offices have received multiple bomb threats. We just received multiple #bombthreats at ADL offices. Law enforcement personnel are responding
richards | March 12, 2017
Dear Readers, I remember when my young daughter willfully did something against my explicit instruction. She averted her gaze trying to deny her act, or perhaps trying to take it back.
richards | March 12, 2017
LORAIN Several hundred people attended Saturday services at Agudath BNai Israel Synagogue to stand in solidarity with the congregation after the synagogue was recently vandalized with a swastika and anti-Semitic message. A day care worker at Agudath Bnai Israel Synagogue, 1715 Meister Road, arrived at work last week and saw a swastika carved into a metal door frame followed by an anti-Semitic statement, We will rise and gas you (expletive), according to a police report. Many local public officials including the mayor, several city council members, current and former Lorain County commissioners and several Lorain County Court of Common Pleas judges attended
richards | March 12, 2017
Today, a local report out of Seattle indicates that there was a vandalism attack on a synagogue in the citys Capitol Hill neighborhood. Seattles crime blotter said this: Around 5 AM Friday morning, an SPD officer working off-duty in the area spotted a spray painted message, describing the Holocaust as fake history, on an exterior wall of the temple in the 1400 block of 16th Avenue. Fake history is likely a play on fake news by Holocaust deniers
richards | March 12, 2017
Singing satirical songs while cross-dressed in Hasidic costume, Pepi Littman was once a controversial star of the Yiddish theater. Littman faded into obscurity after her death in 1930
richards | March 12, 2017
Meeting Lior Ashkenazi, who stars in Joseph Cedars new movie, Norman, with Richard Gere, brings to mind Albert Camus famous quote: You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked a clear question. Norman opened Thursday in theaters throughout Israel, and Ashkenazi who truly never needs to ask a clear question unless he feels like it sat down for an interview at the Diaghilev Hotel in Tel Aviv earlier last week. Ashkenazi plays Micha Eshel, an Israeli politician who accepts a favor from Geres character, Norman (the subtitle of the movie is The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer), then gets drawn into Normans schemes after he becomes prime minister
richards | March 12, 2017
MCGUNNES WORLD Record auditor Fergus Angus looks on in horror as the hummus tragedy unfolds. . (photo credit:Courtesy) Tragedy struck yesterday during an attempt to make the worlds largest bowl of hummus.
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