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Rabbi Herman Schaalman, a longtime leader in the Reform movement, died on Wednesday at the age of 100.

Given the theater world’s historically Jewish track record, it’s not surprising that the recently announced production team of Drama High—a new NBC pilot based on Michael Sokolove’s 2013 non-fiction book about a working-class high school’s theater department in Levittown, Pennsylvania—is mainly comprised of members of the tribe. (Lest we forget, that song from Spamalot that comically immortalizes the influence of Jews on the Great White Way.) And, of Drama High’s three executive producers―Broadway’s Jeffrey Seller (Hamilton... Читать дальше...

For the last week, protestors have been filling American airports from JFK to LAX, demonstrating against President Donald Trump’s “Muslim Ban”—the executive order that in fact suspends for 90 days the issuance of visas to seven countries that are either major state sponsors of terror, or failed states without functioning governments where terror groups like ISIS, Al-Qaida, and their various off-shoots are flourishing. But the EO also suspends indefinitely the issuance of visas for Syrian refugees. Читать дальше...

A troubling and perhaps unsurprising report from a British anti-Semitism watchdog, released Thursday, shows that 1,309 anti-Semitic incidents occurred in 2016, an all-time high since Community Security Trust began recording and compiling these reports, in 1984. The “all-time high” number comes into further focus when learning that CST reports “it is likely that there is significant under-reporting of anti-Semitic incidents to both CTS and the Police.” Over 75 percent of all reported incidents... Читать дальше...

Debbie Reynold’s death on December 29—a day after her daughter Carrie Fisher suddenly passed away—brought back my memory of meeting the “unsinkable” actress.

This week’s episode was recorded live at JCC Manhattan.

Our first Jewish guest is Canadian transplant and longtime “This American Life” contributor Jonathan Goldstein, who now hosts the podcast “Heavyweight.” He tells us about mining his personal life for stories for the show—and convincing his friends and family to do the same. He also gives us a definitive (if very Canadian) answer on Montreal bagels vs. New York bagels.

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For one thing, at least, we owe Donald Trump our most sincere gratitude: He’s given us the gift of clarity. What’s the issue really dividing Americans? It’s not the economy—just look at the way Republicans, formerly the champions of free markets, are cheering on a populist president who bullies CEOs into putting social welfare above the dictates of their own balance sheets. It’s not foreign policy—just look at the party of Reagan cozying up to the Russians and praising Julian Assange as a courageous truth-teller. Читать дальше...

The word in Yiddish is shanda.

Peter Beinart didn’t use that word, but when he flayed Jared Kushner in The Forward yesterday, he was deploying a venerable, haimish trope ordinarily applied to bad actors that bring the Jewish people into disrepute. I have a problem with that.

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