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Remembering Helga Newmark, the First Female Holocaust Survivor to Become an Ordained Rabbi – Tablet Magazine

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Although Rabbi Helga Newmark survived the horrors of the Holocaust, a childhood slight from Anne Frank stayed with her for the rest of her life. March 13, 2012 7:00 AM. Anne Frank, second from the left, at her 10th birthday party in 1939 in Amsterdam. I only ever met one person who had anything bad to say about Anne Frank. She dedicated herself to years of study interrupted at the age of 55 by an initial rejection from Hebrew Union College and Newmark kept trying until she became the oldest graduate in t...

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Out of the Ghetto - Tablet Magazine – Jewish News and Politics, Jewish Arts and Culture, Jewish Life and Religion

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Visual Art and Design. Out of the Ghetto. Long relegated to either Jewish institutions or self-contained collections, Judaica is finding a new home in mainstream museums of art. May 25, 2011 7:00 AM. Hanukkah lamp, Augsburg, Germany, circa 1750. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). From Benjamin Zucker and Derek Content. Stand proudly amid Newport furniture. This spring, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is exhibiting the Library of Congress’ 1478 Washington Haggadah. Goldstein has a more philosophical approach&#4...

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Photo Ops - Tablet Magazine – Jewish News and Politics, Jewish Arts and Culture, Jewish Life and Religion

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As Obama sits down with Netanyahu and Abbas, a brief history of the trilateral summit. September 22, 2009 7:00 AM. Rabin, Clinton, and Arafat. All photos Getty Images.). Camp David, September 1978: Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat. Oslo Accords, September 1993: Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat. The photograph is iconic: Rabin, in his suit, and Arafat, in his keffiyeh and military uniform, shaking hands at the White House, ensconced in Clinton’s wide embrace, immediately after signing t...

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Israelis in Iran: New Doc Shatters Myths – Tablet Magazine

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Explores the Sheltered Fantasy Lives Led by Israelis in Iran. Dan Shadur talks about his new documentary about life under the Shah, and his parents’ golden years in Tehran. June 5, 2013 12:00 AM. Explores the Sheltered Fantasy Lives Led by Israelis in Iran". Israeli women in Isfahan, 1970s. The unexpected moment in Israeli director Dan Shadur’s new documentary,. In expectation of the ayatollah’s impending return from exile, the music is joyous, inviting the Israeli viewer to celebrate along with them.

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Did Zionism Cause the Holocaust? A New Biography Says Yes. – Tablet Magazine

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Did Zionism Cause the Holocaust? A New Biography Says Yes. The authors of a new history of the Grand Mufti Amin Al-Husaini’s ties to Nazis fail to carry their logic to its flawed conclusion. February 3, 2014 12:00 AM. The Grand Mufti Amin Al-Husaini with the Waffen SS in 1943. Deutsches Bundesarchiv via Wikimedia Commons). Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East. That al-Husaini was a radical anti-Semite is not the real news in. Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East.

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Is Corey Robin the Ultimate Facebook Lefty, Twitter Radical, and Anti-Zionist Scourge? – Tablet Magazine

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How Westchester-bred lefty prof Corey Robin came to loathe Israel, defend Steven Salaita, and help cats. By Phoebe Maltz Bovy. January 7, 2015 12:00 AM. Corey Robin (right, being cuffed) at a rally organized by Norman Finkelstein in New York on July 29, 2014 against the Israeli strikes on Gaza. Lewaa Khalek/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images). Would not have been out of place. To retract Steven Salaita’s tenured job offer following some forceful anti-Israel Tweets. Post, from 10 hours prior, calls out critics o...

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Behind the Sotheby's Sale of Painting About Edgardo Mortara, Catholic-Jewish History – Tablet Magazine

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Visual Art and Design. The Story Behind the Painting That Is the Basis for Steven Spielberg’s Next Film. The work, lost for a century, depicts Edgardo Mortara, an Italian Jewish boy seized by Church authorities. December 18, 2013 12:00 AM. Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, detail of “The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara,” 1862. Courtesy of Sotheby's, photo Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Frankfurt am Main). Turns out, it was a good buy: Yesterday, the recently discovered. And members of the Rothschild family. Born in...

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Watch Orthodox Rabbi Benny Lau's Powerful Denunciation of Homophobia Justified in the Name of God – Tablet Magazine

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The scene of the anti-homophobia rally in Jerusalem, Israel, August 1, 2015. Watch Orthodox Rabbi Benny Lau’s Powerful Denunciation of Homophobia Justified in the Name of God. 8216;We must free the Torah of Israel from the handcuffs that she has been bound in by people of darkness’. Watch Orthodox Rabbi Benny Lau’s Powerful Denunciation of Homophobia Justified in the Name of God. 8216;We must free the Torah of Israel from the handcuffs that she has been bound in by people of darkness’. 8220;All the worsh...

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Stick and Stones - Tablet Magazine – Jewish News and Politics, Jewish Arts and Culture, Jewish Life and Religion

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Visual Art and Design. Representations of women in Romania’s Jewish cemeteries. By Ruth Ellen Gruber. September 30, 2009 7:00 AM. Painted gravestones in the Jewish cemetary in Radauti, Romania. Radauti is the town from which my father’s parents emigrated to the United States before World War I, but this, for me, was not supposed to be a roots trip. Nor was I consciously fulfilling the tradition of visiting the tombs of my ancestors around the time of the High Holidays. Another aim is more reflective....

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Don Giovanni, Mozart’s Jewish opera – Tablet Magazine

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The hidden story of. By David P. Goldman. October 31, 2011 7:00 AM. Don Juan and the statue of the Commander,. Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, circa 1830-1835. A century and a half later, another converted Jew Emmanuele Conegliano, known as Lorenzo da Ponte reworked Tirso’s play as a libretto for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and the result was an utterly unique work of art. It is pointless to argue about whether. Is the best opera ever written, because it is a genre unto itself the musical tragi-comedy, or.