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The Museum of Jewish Heritage’s Free Summer Film Series is all Streisand. Wednesday nights beginning June 26 with Funny Girl.
(I am definitely planning on being there on July 24th for A Star is Born.)
One of the better moves I made at JewishBoston.com was hiring Mari Levine to write Chosen Eats, a Jewish food column. Here’s a great interview with her about what it’s like to write about Jewish food.
One of the best parts of my job is that it occasionally leads to things like this.
<3 Eli Valley
http://jewschool.com/2013/04/16/30539/exile-and-peoplehood/
Two and a half months ago, I moved from Boston to New York. When speaking with friends after the move, the refrain was the same. “I don’t miss it. I was ready to go.” I’ve missed my friends but not my city.And then bombs went off at the Boston marathon.
I wrote a piece for the Jewish Women’s Archive about Jackie Hoffman’s recent show at Baruch PAC.
Most polls confirm the centrist persona of the Israeli majority. Asked whether they support a two-state solution, upwards of 70 percent of Israelis respond affirmatively. Asked whether a two-state solution would bring peace, upwards of 80 percent say no. In other words: Israelis want to be doves, but reality forces them to be hawks…
What most depresses me is that this insight - by now commonplace in Israeli discourse - comes as a revelation to many American Jews. The two most important Jewish communities in the world aren’t communicating.
Just referred to “my rebbe, Stephen Sondheim,” in the graduate school class in Jewish experiential education I’m teaching.
- Me: Can you show me where to find a list of all the rabbis who have come through out program?
- Ben: Sure.
- Me: Ask me why.
- Ben: Why?
- Me: Tablet Magazine just did a piece on the five funniest rabbis in Cleveland, and I want to know if any of them are ours.
