Lilly Maier is a news intern at the Forward. She is a graduate journalism student at New York University, where she studies as a Fulbright scholar. She also holds a B.A. in Jewish history from the University of Munich.
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It was a sunny afternoon in March 2003. Birds were singing outside, and the first flowers had just started to blossom on our quiet street in Vienna. At that time, I lived in an old apartment built around the turn of the past century, with high windows and even higher ceilings. It was located in…
Given that it’s is one if not the most essential Jewish texts, the Talmud can be surprisingly hard to come by. But not anymore: The Jewish start-up Sefaria just released a free digital version into the public domain. The William Davidson Talmud is an edition of the Babylonian Talmud with parallel translations into English and…
Ari Emanuel, the CEO of Hollywood talent agency WME-IMG and brother to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, announced on Tuesday that he is forming a political action committee. Together with his co-CEO Patrick Whitesell, Emanuel sent out a company-wide memo detailing some of their plans, according to Politico. “This company’s greatest asset is the diversity of…
This weekend, many New Yorkers were shocked to find swastikas painted on subway windows and advertisements. They reacted swiftly and removed the hateful sharpie messages with hand sanitizer. Two days later, the New York subway system yet again saw a swastika – but this time, it was crossed out, and surrounded by a red “No”…
Ivanka Trump’s and Jared Kushner’s oldest daughter, Arabella, is enchanting China with her Chinese singing skills. Earlier this week, Ivanka Trump posted a video of five-year-old Arabella singing “Happy New Year” in Mandarin on Instagram. “Arabella singing a song she learned for #ChineseNewYear,” Trump wrote. “Wishing everyone an amazing year to come during these days…
Corrects to show that the museum is offering anonymity to the descendants of Auschwitz staff, not the staff themselves, whose names are already public. The Auschwitz Museum is asking Germans and Austrians to donate Nazi documents about the death camp and it’s making a big concession in return. It’s promising to grant the donors anonymity…
Julian Edelman defied physics with his catch during the fourth quarter of Super Bowl LI on Sunday night. The New England Patriots ended up winning 34-28 in overtime. Still can’t get over Julian Edelman’s incredible clutch catch at the #SuperBowlpic.twitter.com/Kcb3vJKqrY — BigSport (@BigSportGB) February 6, 2017 Patriots quarterback Tom Brady described the catch saying, “I…
In the months before the start of World War II, 10,000 mostly Jewish children were saved on a “Kindertransport” or children’s transport. Now these “children” are making their voices heard to fight for current refugees hoping to come to America. Ilse Melamid was 11 years old when she saw her family for the last time….
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