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Double wedding in Seattle caps rapper’s journey
JTAJun 27, 2013
By Debra Rubin, JTA SEATTLE — Five years ago he was D-Black, a hip-hop artist rapping about the violence, gang activity and drugs of his African-American hood....
Yael: fictional Israeli undercover agent at UN
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTAJun 20, 2013
BUDAPEST Theres a new Jewish heroine on the block, a tough but tender Israeli who does undercover work for the UN and stars in a new series of thrillers […]
‘Hannah Arendt’ captures intensity of intellectual combat
Tom Tugend, JTAJun 17, 2013
LOS ANGELES Movie mavens may have to come up with a new genre to classify Hannah Arendt, the biopic of the German-Jewish philosopher. New York Times critic A.O....
Equestrian shows love for Israel through sport
IJN StaffMay 23, 2013
By Elie Klein PROFESSIONAL show jumper, Danielle Goldstein is well known on the national and international Grand Prix circuit. In addition to being a top competitor,...
Chabad man pushing fashion boundaries
Gil Shefler, JTAMay 09, 2013
NEW YORK Yosel Tiefenbrun looked in the mirror and he liked what he saw. The 23-year-old Chabad rabbi and apprentice at Maurice Sedwell, a bespoke tailors shop on...
Shalom y’all: The day that Corky’s went kosher
Ron Kampeas, JTAMay 02, 2013
MEMPHIS The thick scent of a peppery rub wafted through the Margolin Hebrew Academy and Corky the Pig embroidered his chefs hat with a K and became a cow.
Warsaw’s Jewish history museum is dedicated
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTAApr 18, 2013
WARSAW Krzysztof Sliwinski, a longtime Catholic activist in Jewish-Polish relations, gazed wide-eyed at the swooping interior of this citys Museum of the History of...
Jackie Robinson, #42, fought black anti-Semitism
JTAApr 11, 2013
By Ami Eden, JTA NEW YORK — Moviegoers who head this weekend to the AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 9 for the opening of 42 will see the story of how […]
A World Series warning
JNSApr 04, 2013
By Rafael Medoff, JNS YOM HASHOAH 5773/2013 THE 1941 World Series is widely remembered as the first Subway Series, when two New York City teams vied for baseballs...
Kids’ books: It’s rhyme time for matzah and the seder
Penny Schwartz, JTAMar 28, 2013
PASSOVER EDITIONSECTION C PAGE 13 BOSTON Years ago, Nancy Steiner set out to make her family seder a bit more entertaining for her own young kids. She wrote a...
