A Messenger For Portugal's Hidden Jews
by Steve Lipman Staff Writer Fernando Manuel da Costa will speak for a few minutes tonight at the Ashkenazic synagogue in Lisbon. That's not unusual for the 32-year-old native of the Portuguese...
View ArticleNew Voice For Sephardim
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer Separate groups representing Sephardic Jews around the world have for the first time come together to form the World Sephardic Congress, a united voice to advocate...
View ArticleOn The Road Again, In The Diaspora
by Julia Goldman Staff Writer In "A Jew is Not One Thing," a film at the end of The Jewish Museum's permanent exhibition, a group of American, Israeli and European Jews (a rabbi, an educator, a...
View ArticleWhere Kosher Food Comes With A Caipirinha
by Tamar Snyder Staff Writer Jose de Meirelles is going American, and informal. And he’s betting that there’s a market in the Jewish food world for a sophisticated kosher bar.The owner of the famed...
View ArticleShoah And Tell
by Sandee Brawarsky Jewish Week Book Critic "Write and record,” historian Simon Dubnow urged his fellow Jews, as he was taken to his death in Riga.read more
View ArticleAlmost Everything Is Illuminated
Eric Herschthal Yeshiva University Museum exhibit features a dazzling array of mostly hand-written Hebrew books.About six years ago, the curator Sharon L. Mintz was looking for rare printed Talmuds...
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Dark Humor
Adam Kirsch Special to the Jewish Week Fri, 03/19/2010 Earlier this year, New York magazine ran a cover story announcing the death of Jewish humor. “Twilight of the Tummlers” was a profile of Woody...
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