PALESTINE ON (OFF-)BROADWAY: The New York Jewish Week looks at a slew of new plays focused on the Palestinian predicament. Also in the Jewish Week: Palestinian businessmen are plotting an alternative to Hamas and Fatah, and the Jewish community is divided over a controversial new Arab-oriented public school. THE COMMUNITY THAT READS TOGETHER…: Philly Jews…
ARMENIAN ANGER: Armenians in Watertown, Mass., are outraged at the Anti Defamation League, Boston’s Jewish Advocate reports. They’re angry about remarks by ADL chief Abraham Foxman, in which he appeared to oppose a congressional resolution that would recognize the Armenian genocide. TORRID MEETS TORAH: The L.A. Jewish Journal’s Amy Klein investigates “Jewish pulp fiction.” Also…
HARRY POTTER’S JEWISH MONSTERS: The “Harry Potter” series has no shortage of Orthodox Jewish critics, what with its focus on magic and its Shabbat release date. “But”, Rabbi Natan Slifkin notes in Brooklyn’s Jewish Press, “some of the most striking inhabitants of Harry’s world are very much part of Torah. Many of the strange beasts…
HEBREW SCHOOL: Broward County residents packed a school board meeting to debate a planned Hebrew-language charter school, The Florida Jewish News reports. Some have expressed concerns that the proposed public school would inappropriately feature religious content. “My older brother learned Hebrew in a [public] high school in New York, and I was originally excited about…
‘SHE SEES DEAD PEOPLE’: The Chicago Jewish News visits with a local Jewish psychic. “For the past 35 years, I’ve been speaking to dead people,” Ruth Berger tells the newspaper. “They come into my home, they stop me on the street, they wake me from a sound sleep. Ghosts have no boundaries.” ARTISTS AGAINST RHINOPLASTY:…
Et tu, United Methodists of New England? Boston’s Jewish Advocate reports on the latest group of mainline Protestants to jump on the divest-from-Israel bandwagon. The Connecticut Jewish Ledger remembers Pfc Daniel Agami of Parkland, Fla., as part of its series on Jewish soldiers killed in Iraq. May his memory be a blessing. The New York…
The New York Jewish Week reports on the withering of Harlem’s Commandment Keepers, “the nation’s oldest African-American [Jewish] congregation,” Also in The Jewish Week: Producers of a new musical look for an actor to play a Hasid who falls in love with a Brooklyn hipster, and Cynthia Ozick rips the paper’s coverage of Tova Reich’s…
San Francisco’s J. newspaper catches up with the Jewish veterans of the “Summer of Love” 40 years later. Chabad of San Francisco Rabbi Yosef Langer recalls the influence that the era’s music had on him in the days before he turned on to Orthodox Judaism. “My entry to self-realization was through music,” he tells J….
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