Clarke Gets An Earful On Israel
Adam Dickter Assistant Managing Editor Brooklyn rep backtracks on Gaza after meetings with Jewish leaders.After voting with 36 other members of the House in November against a resolution that the...
View ArticlePresent At The Creation
by George Robinson Special To The Jewish Week It is a commonplace notion that historical fictions are not about the period in which they are set but, rather, the period in which they are created. Elie...
View ArticleA Lesson In Location
by George Robinson Special To The Jewish Week Joseph Cedar’s learning curve has been impressive. The New York-born Israeli filmmaker has made only three feature films to date, and each has been the...
View ArticleHoles In The Screen
by George Robinson Special To The Jewish Week This year’s edition of the New York Jewish Film Festival has been an instructive experience. Even a program as large as this one cannot claim to be...
View ArticleSurvivors: Museum Compromise
by Daniel Belasco Staff Writer The Jewish Museum blinked. But it wasn’t enough to placate critics of its controversial exhibition, “Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art,” set to open in nine...
View ArticleOrthodox Scandals Could Harm Power Base, Experts Warn
Adam Dickter Assistant Managing Editor Rash of recent prosecutions may leave community open to political backlash.In the wake of recent scandals involving local Orthodox Jews, some sociologists think...
View ArticleThe Curse That Rocked Great Neck
Sharon Udasin Jewish Week Staff Writer A haredi rabbi’s actions — telling Persians at a private house party that ‘tragedy for eternity’ would befall them — have sent shockwaves through the...
View ArticleThe Palestinian With A Plan For Statehood
Leslie Susser JTA PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s determination to build transparent institutions on the West Bank has won many admirers. Can he succeed?Jerusalem — Pundits and politicians have taken...
View ArticleFeds Briefed On In-Flight Tefillin
Steve Lipman Two months after a Jewish teen from White Plains was detained and briefly handcuffed after wearing his tefillin during morning prayers on a Kentucky-bound flight, the Transportation...
View ArticleWe Count As Americans, But Not As Jews
Leonard Saxe Special To The Jewish Week By the time we have cleared the dishes from our seders, those of us who live in the United States should have returned our 2010 U.S. Census forms. Completing...
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