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‘Kagan’s Superfecta’
I was walking home from shul on a Friday night about six weeks ago. I was passing Aish HaTorah on Pico Blvd, headed east. I was stopped by a couple from New Jersey. They were looking for Shiloh’s restaurant for … Continue reading →
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Jewish News Roundup
Tamar Fox — even when I hate what she says, I enjoy how she says it — writes for Jewcy: Rabbi Avi Weiss and Rabbi Marc Angel have launched a new group for Orthodox rabbis called the International Rabbinic Fellowship, … Continue reading →
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Tagged al jazeera, american jewish life, arab media, bar ilan, crown heights riots, gender imbalance, group leadership, israeli expert, israeli military officials, jewish news, jewish study, kedar, marc angel, orthodox rabbis, rabbi avi weiss, rabbinical school, reform movements, rsquo, sylvia barack fishman, unofficial voice
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Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
Sunday morning, I catch a screening at the Laemmle theater in Santa Monica. In it, a professor of Yiddish at Vilnius University in Lithuania, an absolute bear of a man, talks about immigrant Jews wanting their children to speak English … Continue reading →
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Tagged 1980s, Artscroll, bar ilan, civilization, dead today, immigrant jews, jewish culture, jewish expression, jewish history, jewish holiday, jewish identity, jewish law, ladino, laemmle theater, lingua franca, love story, man talks, privilege, radical politics, roger wolfson, rudoff, Santa Monica, sixty years, Torah, tv writer, vilnius university, western wall, yiddish accent, yiddish culture, yiddish theater
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