admin | November 14, 2021
I admit I have not read Martin Indyks 688-page love letter to Henry Kissinger, Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy. I sort of feel like I have though, as the book has now scored excerpts in The Forward, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as reviews and/or interviews in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Haaretz, The Forward, The Guardian, Jewish Insider, The Jerusalem Post, and CNN.com.
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admin | November 14, 2021
The 19th annual Austin Jewish Film Festival starts this week and will include both in-person and virtual events. Last year, the festival was mostly virtual, with a couple of drive-in movies,because of the coronavirus pandemic. But with coronavirus vaccines available and Austin-Travis County in Stage 3 of Austin Public Healths coronavirus risk-based guidelines, attendees can meet up in person this year, if theyre comfortable.
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admin | November 4, 2021
A shorthand voters guide for Tuesdays mayoral election in Minneapolis could have defined the choice of candidates as left, left and lefter.
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admin | November 4, 2021
The Battle of Beersheba was a significant turning point in world history.
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admin | November 4, 2021
(JTA) In 1916, in the picturesque German village of Heinebach, a 14-year-old girl named Elisabeth Schmidtkunz penned a sweet message in her classmate Jenny Katzs autograph book. Jenny! Get to know people, wrote Elisabeth.
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admin | November 4, 2021
An organizer of the white supremacist Unite The Right rally privately discussed raising an army, attacking Jewish people, and murdering a colleague in the movement, a jury heard this week. Sines v. Kessler, an ongoing lawsuit, seeks to hold organizers of Unite The Right responsible for the deadly rallys violence.
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admin | November 4, 2021
After the deaths of Philip Roth and Amos Oz, two perennial runners-up for the Nobel Prize in Literature, this past years short lists for the award included only one Jewish representative, the French author Hlne Cixous. Born in Oran, Algeria in 1937, Cixous has written repeatedly about her upbringing in a German Jewish household, which she considers inexhaustible subject matter. Often, her literary analyses of fellow Jewish writers, from Clarice Lispector, the Brazilian novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin, to Paul Celan and Sigmund Freud, contain allusions to her own family experiences.
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admin | November 4, 2021
I was never a fan of the late Joan Rivers. Nevertheless, I would have looked forward to the television series based on her life. Except, it is not happening
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admin | November 4, 2021
As Italians prepared for Giorno dei Morti, the Day of the Dead that is observed each year on Nov. 2, our local grocery stores, fruit markets and newsstands were busy stocking the commemorative candles that Italians light at home or take to the cemetery to place at the graves of their loved ones. But here in Serrastretta, in my Calabria mountain community, vestiges of Yizkor traditions are among many of the lost Jewish traditions that for centuries continue to hide in plain sight.
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admin | November 4, 2021
There are many reasons for the Frankel Jewish Academy boys tennis teams remarkable success since Larry Stark took over as coach in 2015. Talent and hard work have been the driving forces behind the Jaguars five appearances in the Division 4 state tournament in Starks seven years as coach. Frankel qualified for state in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019, finishing as high as eighth place in 2015, before its 13th-place finish this fall.
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