Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove: The New Reality of American Jewry
Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove: The New Reality of American Jewry
New York, NY
On October 7, American Jews woke up to a new, unrecognizable truth: a level of hatred to which so many assumed America had become immune. Where did all this antisemitism come from – or was it always there? How can we understand our place in a world that has, in every century, turned against us? How…
Thursday, December 5 2024
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Women on the Move: Joyce Maynard
Women on the Move: Joyce Maynard
New York, NY
Three years ago, in Count the Ways, bestselling author Joyce Maynard introduced her multitude of fans to a family forced to confront painful truths about its past as it struggled to find redemption in its darkest hours. Even once the poignant novel was published, Maynard couldn’t let go of the ind…
Tuesday, November 26 2024
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Women on the Move: Roxana Robinson
Women on the Move: Roxana Robinson
New York, NY
Secrets, lies and a burning desire for justice anchor bestselling author Lisa Barr’s gripping new novel, Goddess of Warsaw, a page-turning journey from the misery of Nazi predations to the glamour of Hollywood. For decades, screen goddess Lena Browning has hidden the truth about her youth as Bina …
Tuesday, December 3 2024
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Kidnapped: Screening and Discussion of TORN
Kidnapped: Screening and Discussion of TORN
New York, NY
On October 7, Dede Bandaid and Nitzan Mintz, Israeli artists in New York City for a residency program, never imagined they would spark a guerrilla public art war. Overwhelmed by the news from home about the mounting number of dead and kidnapped, they just wanted to channel their anguish into throw…
Thursday, December 12 2024
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Women on the Move: Margalit Fox
Women on the Move: Margalit Fox
New York, NY
How quickly we’ve forgotten about New York’s Jewish underworld . . . and how lucky we are that Margalit Fox reminds us in a delightful new biography of the queen of New York’s seamy side, the German immigrant with the innocuous name Mrs. Mandelbaum who traveled to New York on steerage and worked he…
Tuesday, December 10 2024
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Women on the Move LIVE with Brooke Shields
Women on the Move LIVE with Brooke Shields
New York, NY
Zibby Media Presents If the age-related graying of your hair, the aching in your knees and the sagging of various parts of your body torment you, imagine what those changes could mean for a 59-year-old woman whose every feature has been praised since she appeared nude in her first film at the age …
Thursday, January 16 2025
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All About Herzl: STATE OF THE JEWS Opera
All About Herzl: STATE OF THE JEWS Opera
New York, NY
As the Jewish world roiled over Theodor Herzl’s bold declarations about Jews being a people rather than followers of a religion, the same debate over what it means to be Jewish ripped apart his marriage to Julie Naschauer Herzl, daughter of a wealthy Viennese family, who had no interest in her husb…
Wednesday, January 15 2025
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Jonathan Greenblatt and Bret Stephens
Jonathan Greenblatt and Bret Stephens
New York, NY
Eighty-five years after mobs destroyed synagogues, shattered shop windows and assaulted Jews in a spasm of hatred known as Kristallnacht, Jews in Europe fled for their lives again, this time in Amsterdam. A “Jew hunt,” New York Times columnist Bret Stephens called the attacks surrounding a soccer …
Tuesday, December 3 2024
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Representative Hakeem Jeffries with Ari Melber
Representative Hakeem Jeffries with Ari Melber
New York, NY
In January 2023, after Kevin McCarthy was elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, delivered a unique 15-minute speech before handing over the “people’s” gavel to his Republican colleague. Ending with alphabetical declaration …
Thursday, November 21 2024
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All About Challah!
All About Challah!
New York, NY
For thousands of years, we’ve kneaded it, braided it, salted it and prayed over it. But whether in three, four or six strands, in round loaves for Rosh Hashanah, twin loaves for Shavuot or ladder-shaped ones for pre-fast Yom Kippur meals, challah is more than the Jewish staff of life. It’s a remin…
Wednesday, December 4 2024
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