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‘Hello Darkness My Old Friend’ recounts author’s frienship with Art Garfunkel
JTAAug 06, 2020
By David Rullo, Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA PITTSBURGH — Sandy Greenberg recalls walking along Amsterdam Avenue in New York City with his best friend Arthur...
The new foodie normal: Workshops instead of travel
JTAAug 06, 2020
By Karen Chernick TEL AVIV — The reservations were rolling in, and Inbal Baum was preparing for her busiest summer yet of food tours through Israel’s famed open-air...
Sefaria moves from the Talmud to democracy
Shira Hanau, JTAJul 23, 2020
NEW YORK — Could democracy take a page from the Talmud? The creators of Sefaria, a project to digitize Jewish texts, think so. Since 2012, Sefaria, a database of...
Sports angst in a pandemic
Chris LeppekJul 16, 2020
the summer simmers on, and the coronavirus pandemic only grows worse in the US, the wide world of sports is suddenly not looking so wide. Fans of major sports are facing...
Lawyer by day; Instagram sensation by night
JTAJul 09, 2020
By Rachel Ringler, the Nosher I came across his Instagram site several months ago, and it stopped me mid-scroll. His food was beautiful, the vegetables carefully...
Nine iconic designs by Milton Glaser
Gabe Friedman, JTAJul 02, 2020
NEW YORK — Milton Glaser, the godfather of modern graphic design who passed away on his 91st birthday on June 26, didn’t talk about his Jewish identity very often....
Marceau’s act of heroism
IJN StaffJul 02, 2020
By Phil Goldfarb He was born Marcel Mangel on March 22, 1923 in Strasbourg, France, to a Jewish family. His parents were Ann Werzberg Mangel and Charles Mangel, a kosher...
Jewish Boston bookseller helps you spruce up your Zoom background
Penny Schwartz, JTAJun 25, 2020
BOSTON — In early April, just a few weeks after non-essential businesses in Massachusetts were shut down due to COVID-19, the staff at the Brattle Book Shop noticed...
Popular LA market is central Iran Jews — and non-Jews
Josefin Dolsten, JTAJun 18, 2020
LOS ANGELES — Elat Market has everything needed for a Shabbat meal to make any Persian Jewish grandma proud — from Persian classics like seeded flatbreads, smoked...
What war could not stop, pandemic did: ‘Fiddler’
JTAJun 18, 2020
By Stephen Silver NEW YORK — The coronavirus pandemic has done something that no war, natural disaster or other calamity has been able to do for more than 50 years:...
