Carol Ungar
By Carol Ungar
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Culture This ultra-Orthodox man is running for president — or is he?
Bored by Biden? Turned off by Trump? Confused by Kanye? Meet Yoely, who is running for president on the Heimishe Party ticket. Heimeshe is Yiddish for wholesome, and a word many Hasidim use to describe themselves and their culture. Yoely – no last name, like Adele and Beyoncé — explains in an Instagram video: “High-mish…
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Community I dream of seeing my grandkids across the ocean, but the pandemic still has me grounded
With life returning to a strange new normal I’m thinking of flying back to the U.S. again. Like many olim, I’m a dual national, a citizen of both countries with my heart and family divided. Until this pandemic I was a frequent flyer. I thought that was my natural right to go whenever the spirit…
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Community Read ‘My Mask,’ a picture book to help kids understand coronavirus
Like many grandmothers, I’ve been trying to find a way to connect with my grandkids in this pandemic. I penned a poem for my granddaughter Livia who lives in Hollywood, Florida — the other side of the globe from me in Israel; we now visit on Facetime. My daughter, Miriam, a self-taught painter, took it…
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Life Virtual shidduch-making for the Orthodox (they weren’t going to hold hands anyway)
One recent Saturday night, a 24-year-old named Tiffany G. put the finishing touches on her makeup to prepare for a date. New York City had been in lockdown for weeks, the usual hotels and lounges where Orthodox Jews meet for arranged dates all shuttered. So where was Tiffany headed? To meet a potential husband on…
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Opinion Letter | There’s A Sweet Side To Haredi Schools That’s Too Often Ignored
Dear Editor, While I don’t dispute the reports of physical abuse at Hassidic boys schools, as a parent whose children have attended similar institutions, I have a different story to tell. True, there were some oddballs, including the strange man whom my son called “the Admor of the Cats” who kept a bottle of cherry…
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Recipes Sweet-and-Sour Cucumber Salad
We substituted shallots for the onion in this recipe because we had them on hand and loved the look of the purple color against the green of the cucumber. Uborka salata, Hungarian Jewish sweet-and-sour cucumber salad, actually benefits from a long stay in the fridge. That’s why it is such a perfect choice for Seudah…
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Opinion Mom Told Strangers Her Holocaust Secret — But Not Me
Getty Images One day in 2002, my mother sat down in the living room of her Upper West Side, Manhattan apartment and told her life story to a stranger. The stranger was a volunteer, part of Steven Spielberg’s epic campaign to preserve the life stories of Holocaust survivors. For over three hours the stranger asked…
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News My Inner Psalm Reader
My Israeli-born kids recited Tehillim in kindergarten. Tehillim, the Psalms of David, are background music here in Jerusalem. But they weren’t when I was growing up in mid-20th-century New York. David’s words lived on in my siddur and set to Shlomo Carlebach’s music, but the idea of reciting them on their own, and not during…
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