Like many Americans of my age, I was raised on Peter, Paul, and Mary’s music. “Puff The Magic Dragon,” “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” and “Lemon Tree” were as much a part of my childhood as Mr. Rogers and sugary breakfast cereals. As I got older, and more involved in the Jewish community, I learned […]
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The Pink Peacock, the anarchist, queer-friendly kosher Yiddish café that operated in Glasgow, Scotland for three years, is looking to reopen in Brooklyn this summer. The cafe, which opened in 2020, generated serious buzz for likely being the only queer, Yiddish, anarchist and vegan pay-what-you-can café in the world. In 2023, it closed after its […]
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In “Midas Man,” the new film out this month in the United States about the late Beatles manager Brian Epstein, an early, pivotal scene is set in a synagogue. In it, Brian (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd) sits with his parents, Harry and Malka (Eddie Marsan and Emily Watson), as they sit in the pews together as the […]
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Holocaust survivor Millie Baran has seen and done a lot in her 99 years. After being confined to the Oszmiana ghetto in Poland, she was deported as a teen to multiple labor and concentration camps. When the war was over, she spent four years in a displaced persons camp in Germany before moving to New […]
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When four young Israeli soldiers were released in Gaza over the weekend, the first thing many people noticed about them was their defiant gestures in front of their Hamas captors. The second was their braided hair. Some close observers of the hostages concluded that the braids — also seen on some of the children released […]
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TEL AVIV — People in Israel and across the world have pledged to wear orange on Wednesday, in homage to the hair color of the last two young children still held hostage in Gaza. “Orange Day,” in honor of Kfir and Ariel Bibas and their parents, Shiri and Yarden, is just the latest activist initiative […]
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For the first time in 25 years, the works of famed Jewish expressionist painter Ben-Zion Weinman will be shown in a solo exhibition in Brooklyn. Weinman, known simply by the mononym “Ben-Zion,” was a founding member of “The Ten,” a group founded in 1935 to draw attention to a group of Jewish American artists — […]
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It’s happening — just like our colleagues at Hey Alma said it would. After teasing on social media last week that “we’re reuniting for something iconic,” actors Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan — stars of the enduring 1989 rom-com “When Harry Met Sally” — will once again convene at the Lower East Side’s Katz’s Deli. […]
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By day, sisters Molly and Clara appear to be modern-day New Yorkers, living in an indie cinema that was once home to a Yiddish theater. At night, they transform into estries — owl-like women vampires who prey on men. Molly and Clara — whose alter egos are based on figures from Jewish lore — are […]
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Chris Campbell loves Jewish food. Known in some online circles as the “babka king,” he’s also quite fond of other Ashkenazi Jewish staples like rugelach, latkes and knishes. These foods, of course, are undoubtedly delicious. But what makes Campbell’s passion unique is that he isn’t Jewish — and he hadn’t even heard of most of these […]
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