Yaffa And The Pope
by Steve Lipman Staff Writer Yaffa Eliach, Holocaust survivor-author-historian, first learned of a Polish priest named Karol Wojtyla some 30 years ago while working on her book "Hasidic Tales of the...
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by Steve Lipman Staff Writer Physical maladies, psychological illness, financial difficulties — these are pervasive in contemporary society and seem to be becoming more prevalent. And so are books...
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Seth Goldstein Staff Writer Physical maladies, psychological illness, financial difficulties — these are pervasive in contemporary society and seem to be becoming more prevalent.And so are books meant...
View ArticleHot Issues, Cool Art
by Daniel Belasco Staff Writer There were plenty of words last Sunday morning on East 92nd Street, but not the sort The Jewish Museum had hoped for when it planned a provocative exhibition of...
View ArticleThe Language Of Memory
by Sandee Brawarsky Jewish Week Book Critic "Not another book on the Holocaust,” a friend of author Anne Michaels lamented, as he came across a new book on the subject, unaware that the first novel...
View ArticleNever Again — For Darfur
by Doug Chandler Special To The Jewish Week For Shelley Cohen, a member of Lincoln Square Synagogue on the Upper West Side and a mother of three, traveling anywhere with her oldest child, a...
View ArticleThe Architecture Of Hope
by Julia Goldman Staff Writer Thunderous applause greeted the first proposal for rebuilding the World Trade Center site unveiled last week by seven international design teams at the Winter Garden in...
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by Daniel Belasco Staff Writer There were plenty of words last Sunday morning on East 92nd Street, but not the sort The Jewish Museum had hoped for when it planned a provocative exhibition of...
View ArticleA New Medium For Holocaust Stories
Doug Chandler Special To The Jewish Week Part graphic novel, part documentary, ‘motion comics’ help attract viewers to difficult topics.The creators of “They Spoke Out: American Voices Against the...
View ArticleCan Our 15 Minutes Last?
Thane Rosenbaum Special To The Jewish Week The rewards and pitfalls of being cool in America’s eyes.A favorite inside joke among American Jews has always been their disproportionate influence on...
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