Tahini Baby
Tahini Baby
New York, NY
In Hindu legend, sesame seeds symbolize immortality. In ancient Egypt and Persia, they were ground into flour for bread. In today’s Middle East, they are almost synonymous with the ground paste routinely mixed into hummus, baba ghanoush and halva. For Eden Grinshpan, the host of Top Chef Canada an…
Tuesday, April 22 2025
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Jennifer Weiner: Taking Women – and Women Writers – Seriously
Jennifer Weiner: Taking Women – and Women Writers – Seriously
New York, NY
Zibby Media Presents No one could accuse Jennifer Weiner of being shy . . . about the messy truths of women’s lives, about her own life, about her view of the publishing industry or her distaste for the phrase “chick lit.” Perhaps that’s why her books have spent over five years on the New York Ti…
Monday, April 21 2025
11:30 AM
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Women on the Move: Lihi Lapid
Women on the Move: Lihi Lapid
New York, NY
No matter how much the protagonist of Lihi Lapid’s new novel, hiding in a Tel Aviv staircase and disguising her identity, seems to be on her own, she never really is. After all, women’s lives are tangles of daughters and mothers, grandmothers and memories from which it isn’t so easy to escape. Al…
Tuesday, March 18 2025
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Temple Emanu-El Celebrates Its 180th Anniversary
Temple Emanu-El Celebrates Its 180th Anniversary
New York, NY
180 Years. 9,360 Shabbat Evening Services. In April 1845, the 37 men who had just formed Congregation Emanu-El held their first Shabbat services in a barren second-floor loft amid the tenements at Clinton and Grand Streets on the Lower East Side. In accordance with rabbinic law, they could not sit…
Friday, April 4 2025
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Graydon Carter & Bette Midler in Conversation
Graydon Carter & Bette Midler in Conversation
New York, NY
From the pages of Vanity Fair to the red carpets of Hollywood, editor Graydon Carter’s memoir revives the glamorous heyday of magazines when they were the vanguard of culture. When the Going Was Good is Graydon Carter’s lively recounting of how he made his mark as one of society’s most talented ed…
Wednesday, March 26 2025
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Women on the Move: Dara Horn with Jordana Horn
Women on the Move: Dara Horn with Jordana Horn
New York, NY
In novel after novel, Dara Horn has devised wildly inventive ways to make Jewish stories new again. She dreamed up a mystery around a Marc Chagall painting in which past, present and future collide; imagined a Jewish soldier in the Union Army ordered to murder his own uncle on Passover 1862; and me…
Tuesday, April 8 2025
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Israel on Our Minds: You Ask, Ambassador Aharoni Answers - Session Three
Israel on Our Minds: You Ask, Ambassador Aharoni Answers - Session Three
New York, NY
Even those of us who follow the news from Israel regularly are left with more questions than insight: How should we think about Israel's security in the face of a rapidly changing Middle East? What is the government doing in response to the worldwide condemnation of the Jewish State . . . and wha…
Thursday, March 27 2025
11:00 AM
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David Denby in Conversation with Joe Klein
David Denby in Conversation with Joe Klein
New York, NY
It’s conventional wisdom that the mid-20th century ushered in a heyday for American Jewry as the economy soared, antisemitism waned and the talents of a new generation of Jews reshaped American culture. Yet few people discuss how these Jewish geniuses managed to navigate their restrained traditiona…
Tuesday, April 8 2025
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Ezra Klein Discussing ABUNDANCE with Derek Thompson
Ezra Klein Discussing ABUNDANCE with Derek Thompson
New York, NY
America’s 21st-century landscape looks pretty bleak: After decades of strict zoning to prevent urban density, we’re facing a housing shortage. After years of slashing immigration to keep wages high, we don’t have enough workers. Regular off-shoring of manufacturing to control costs has brought us …
Monday, March 17 2025
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Israel on Our Minds: You Ask, Ambassador Aharoni Answers - Session Four
Israel on Our Minds: You Ask, Ambassador Aharoni Answers - Session Four
New York, NY
Even those of us who follow the news from Israel regularly are left with more questions than insight: How should we think about Israel's security in the face of a rapidly changing Middle East? What is the government doing in response to the worldwide condemnation of the Jewish State . . . and wha…
Thursday, April 24 2025
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