Howard Shapiro
By Howard Shapiro
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News Two-Way Giving
In October, they began. This time next year, they will have finished. In between, it?s a big commitment to become a docent. It takes a lot of knowledge and plenty of spare time. The first class of docents for the greatly expanded National Museum of American Jewish History, which will open in Philadelphia next year,…
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News ‘Detectives’ on the Trail of Family History and Long-Lost Relatives
The 1,000 people who came from all over to the International Conference on Jewish Genealogy are bubbes and mommies, fathers and sons, and professionals and retirees, and besides being Jewish, they all have one thing in common. They are detectives. Some, like Ann Francesconi, of Tavares, Fla., have been on the trail of their extended…
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Culture Youngish, Yiddish and Staging a Revival
Yiddish was alive and doing quite well, for a sure few hours, at a synagogue on the edge of downtown Philadelphia. Onstage, six performers — in their 20s and 30s, which constitutes young for Yiddish speakers — were speaking the centuries-old language of European Jews with ease. The jokes were flying. The music was piping….
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Culture A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Jew
The young man, who calls himself an artist, looks out to an audience eying him from risers laid along the floor-level stage. He speaks of his reputation without irony. He calls himself a traitor. A self-hater. A blasphemer. His name is Asher Lev, he says, introducing himself by declaiming his legacy. “I am none of…
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Culture Five Sites That Whet the Appetite for Travel
The other night, I went looking for a synagogue in France. When I began my journey on the Web, I didn’t know that this particular synagogue was the country’s oldest; I only knew that it was in France and it was said to be a beauty. I learned about its age — deep roots into…
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