March 22: Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim, described by the New York Times as “the greatest, and perhaps best-known artist working in musical theater,” was born in New York City on this date in 1930. The child of disturbed and...
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Paul J. Cohen of Stanford University, who won Fields Medal for Outstanding Mathematical Achievement in 1966 for proving that the continuum hypothesis was not provable (!), died on this date in 2007 at...
View ArticleThe Uncivil Servant: The Other Other New York
by Mitchell Abidor The theme of Bill de Blasio’s wildly successful mayoral campaign was “A Tale of Two Cities,” the New York of the wealthy and the New York of the rest, whose differences were...
View ArticleThe Uncivil Servant: In Protest of Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Am I Being Anti-Semitic, or Do They Deserve It? by Mitchell Abidor Some time ago, I spent several months translating the correspondence of the French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a ferocious...
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May 13: A Survey of Anti-Semitism
On this date in 2014, the Anti-Defamation League released the results of a survey about anti-Semitism involving over 50,000 people in 101 countries as well as the occupied Palestinian territories. The...
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The Long History of Chinese Jews
by Dusty Sklar ONE OFTEN HEARS the Chinese, especially those who live in the huge international Chinese diaspora, being referred to as the “Jews of the Orient” and labelled with stereotypes similar to...
View ArticleSoviet Deportations Begin in Poland
The Soviet Union began deporting Polish citizens to Siberia on this date in 1940 following the Soviet takeover of eastern Poland. The Nazis had already moved on western Poland; six out of ten of...
View ArticleThe Short Season, Part 2
HUSTLING FULL-TIME IN THE CATSKILLS by Elliot Podwill To read Part 1, click here. THE SOCIAL DARWINIAN universe we inhabited filtered down to adolescent social mores. A friend in high school was on...
View ArticleIntermarriage Grew the Jewish Community
Now how to sustain it? by Paul Golin THREE LOCAL JEWISH COMMUNITIES released population studies in recent weeks, including two of the five largest Jewish communities in the country, and though the...
View ArticleThe Uncivil Servant: Where the Hell Did We Come From?
by Mitchell Abidor Discussed in this essay: The Origin of the Jews, by Steven Weitzman. Princeton University Press, 2017, 408 pages. AT THE END of Steven Weitzman’s Origin of the Jews, a scholarly...
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March 22: Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim, described by the New York Times as “the greatest, and perhaps best-known artist working in musical theater,” was born in New York City on this date in 1930. The child of disturbed and...
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March 23: Jewdayo’s First Mathematician
Paul J. Cohen of Stanford University, who won Fields Medal for Outstanding Mathematical Achievement in 1966 for proving that the continuum hypothesis was not provable (!), died on this date in 2007 at...
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The Uncivil Servant: The Other Other New York
by Mitchell Abidor The theme of Bill de Blasio’s wildly successful mayoral campaign was “A Tale of Two Cities,” the New York of the wealthy and the New York of the rest, whose differences were...
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The Uncivil Servant: In Protest of Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Am I Being Anti-Semitic, or Do They Deserve It? by Mitchell Abidor Some time ago, I spent several months translating the correspondence of the French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a ferocious...
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May 13: A Survey of Anti-Semitism
On this date in 2014, the Anti-Defamation League released the results of a survey about anti-Semitism involving over 50,000 people in 101 countries as well as the occupied Palestinian territories. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Long History of Chinese Jews
by Dusty Sklar ONE OFTEN HEARS the Chinese, especially those who live in the huge international Chinese diaspora, being referred to as the “Jews of the Orient” and labelled with stereotypes similar to...
View ArticleFebruary 10: Soviet Deportations Begin in Poland
The Soviet Union began deporting Polish citizens to Siberia on this date in 1940 following the Soviet takeover of eastern Poland. The Nazis had already moved on western Poland; six out of ten of...
View ArticleThe Short Season, Part 2
HUSTLING FULL-TIME IN THE CATSKILLS by Elliot Podwill To read Part 1, click here. THE SOCIAL DARWINIAN universe we inhabited filtered down to adolescent social mores. A friend in high school was on...
View ArticleIntermarriage Grew the Jewish Community
Now how to sustain it? by Paul Golin THREE LOCAL JEWISH COMMUNITIES released population studies in recent weeks, including two of the five largest Jewish communities in the country, and though the...
View ArticleThe Uncivil Servant: Where the Hell Did We Come From?
by Mitchell Abidor Discussed in this essay: The Origin of the Jews, by Steven Weitzman. Princeton University Press, 2017, 408 pages. AT THE END of Steven Weitzman’s Origin of the Jews, a scholarly...
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