Irene Katz Connelly is a staff writer at the Forward. You can contact her at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter at @katz_conn.
Irene Katz Connelly
By Irene Katz Connelly
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Culture 10 Ways To Pay For Your Future In Jewish Studies
Maimonides wrote his “Guide to the Perplexed” about ancient philosophy, but one of the most perplexing questions facing young Jewish scholars today is how to get through graduate school without going into debt. For our readers mulling careers in Judaic Studies, we’ve rounded up ten generous sources of funding and fellowships – so you can…
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Culture At JCC’s Other Israel Film Festival, Borders Divide and Meals Unite
The Marlene Meyerson JCC’s Other Israel Film Festival is aptly named. Dedicated to representing underserved communities in the Jewish state, the festival showcases a cross-section of Israeli society that may be unfamiliar to many American filmgoers. Aside from new perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this year’s lineup features immigrant narratives, portraits of notable (and controversial)…
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Culture In ‘Border of Pain,’ There Are No Saviors
Trundling through checkpoints on a dusty West Bank road, an Israeli doctor sporting jaunty aviators points out the nearby settlement of Einav. In the 1960s it housed a paratrooper base, where he served as a medic. “I’m glad to see the base is gone,” he tells Ruth Walk, an Israeli documentarian and the director of…
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The Schmooze In Amazon’s ‘Hunters’, Al Pacino Finds His Yiddishkeit
“This is not murder,” croons a be-whiskered, be-Yiddish-accented Al Pacino, glaring ominously at a cork-board tacked with photographs of men in totalitarian-chic uniforms. “This is mitzvah.” It’s official: in Amazon Prime’s upcoming drama “Hunters”, Pacino will play the Nazi-killing Jewish grandfather you never knew you needed. Slated for release in 2020, “Hunters” seems like a…
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Life Chicken Soup For The Jewish Soul
Google the phrase “Jewish chicken soup,” and the search engine will provide a list of related queries, first among which is: “does chicken soup have penicillin?” It’s official: the medicinal, spiritual, almost supernatural powers of bubbe’s soup are now so undisputed that even tech giants recognize them. Eating chicken soup — and vociferously defending the…
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The Schmooze It’s Not Your Bubbe’s Drag Show
It’s after midnight — long past the bedtime hour for most bubbes — when Josephine steps onstage with her guitar. Her slightly disheveled red jumpsuit looks like it once belonged to an Elvis impersonator. But the feathered curls she sports are reminiscent of a woman of a certain age, the kind who never misses Shabbos…
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Culture On National Redhead Day, Explore the History of Ginger Jews
As any self-respecting redhead will tell you, it’s not just a hair color – it’s a lifestyle. But we didn’t always live in a world of redhead reunions and spitfire portrait series. For centuries, red hair was feared and reviled – especially when it came to Europe’s Jews. In honor of National Redhead Day, we’ve…
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The Schmooze A Documentary Film On Female Pleasure Misses The Spot
In an advertisement for Italian fashion house Dolce and Gabbana’s summer 2007 collection, a well-oiled model sprawls across the screen, her face evincing well-lipsticked resignation as a group of equally well-oiled men pin her skeletal, stilettoed body to the ground. If the designers had set out to create an illustration for a thought piece on…
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