Judy Blume on Judy Blume
Judy Blume on Judy Blume
New York, NY
A Library of Congress Living Legend. Winner of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters . Subject of a Peabody Award-winning documentary film, Judy Blume Forever. One of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2023. 29 books, 92 million copies…
Tuesday, May 13 2025
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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
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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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Women on the Move: Nicola Kraus
Women on the Move: Nicola Kraus
New York, NY
Nicola Kraus was only 24 when she teamed up with a former NYU classmate to write a book that became a phenomenon: an international #1 bestseller that sold more than six million copies and was turned into a film starring Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Alicia Keyes and Laura Linney: The Nanny Diari…
Tuesday, May 6 2025
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Ron Chernow with Stacy Schiff on Mark Twain
Ron Chernow with Stacy Schiff on Mark Twain
New York, NY
For more than three decades, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Ron Chernow has marshaled deft prose, meticulous research and a keen sense of irony to bring leading American figures to life — most famously revealing the wunderkind Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton as such a colorful character th…
Wednesday, May 14 2025
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Honor Our Past, Imagine Our Future
Honor Our Past, Imagine Our Future
New York, NY
Walk almost any neighborhood in New York City and the past inevitably collides with the future, since the city is always ever-evolving. Today, New York City’s legislation provides protected status to 158 historic districts, 1,464 individual landmarks, 123 interior landmarks and even 12 scenic landm…
Monday, April 28 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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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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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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