A Fascinating Revamp at the Jewish Museum
by Dan Grossman “SCENES from the Collection,” the first permanent exhibition at New York’s Jewish Museum in over twenty-five years, pulls off the triumphant feat of being both rooted and...
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View ArticleWe Are All Jews, But Where’s the Party?
by Marty Roth Discussed in this essay: Feeling Jewish (a Book for Just About Anyone) by Deborah Baum. Yale University Press, 2017, 296 pages. “Modernization . . . is about everyone becoming Jewish...
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by Rebecca Boroson “THIS IS A NIGHT for Elijah,” says 7-year-old Bram. The wind is battering the trees and sending the clouds running for cover. And it does, indeed, seem like a night for the...
View ArticlePassing Over and Out of India
An India Travelogue, Part 13 by Lawrence Bush Click for Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. WE ARE CUTTING SHORT our trip to India, with one week left (which would have involved a trip...
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