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Alma will have a “Jew-ish” angle, said editor Molly Tolsky — meaning a blend of secular and Jewish content, with the goal of addressing all aspects of a young women’s life, including careers, relationships and spirituality.
Read MorePaul Shaffer has just returned from a gig at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville (“the church of country music,” as he calls it), and he will play some dates across the Midwest and in Beverly Hills later this month.
Read More“Barren Cove” was influenced specifically by Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick. The other huge influences are actually Victorian romances.
Read MoreJewish actor Ben Platt, son of Baltimore native Marc Platt, received the award for Best Actor in a Musical.
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Smoking in Israel is on the increase, partially due to lower taxes on loose tobacco. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Israel’s Health Ministry recorded the biggest single-year setback in more than a decade, with the rate rising to 22.5 percent in 2016 from 19.7 percent the previous year.
Read MoreAround half of Eldelala’s still-small user base indicates that they would be willing to relocate for love.
Read MoreThe designs include a clenched fist in the colors of the Palestinian flag and statements opposing the Israeli occupation.
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“44 Months in Jasenovac” (Sentia Publishing) chronicles Egon Berger’s time in Jasenovac, a concentration camp in Croatia. (Photo by Daniel Kurcin Jr.)
For three decades, Ruth H. Bloch dreamed of having the Holocaust memoir of her late uncle, Egon Berger, translated from Croatian into English. Now, those closest to Bloch have made that dream a reality.
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“Hank Greenberg in 1938: Hatred and Home Runs in the Shadow of War” is about the Jewish Hall of Famer as he was trying to make baseball history at the same time that prejudice against Jews was reaching a murderous boiling point in Europe.
Jews across the United States, worried about looming threats overseas, “looked to Greenberg as a symbol of hope.”
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Thom Yorke of Radiohead performing at The Greek Theatre in Berkeley, Calif., April 18, 2017. (Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)
Yorke fired back at his critics for assuming that the members of Radiohead are uninformed on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
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Rabbi Meyer Zywica and Frances Friedlander (daughter of Rabbi Louis B. Friedlander of Baltimore) on their wedding day, 1950. (Photo courtesy Jewish Museum of Maryland)
Just Married! Wedding Stories from Maryland at the Jewish Museum of Maryland includes wedding gowns and garments; invitations, artifacts and accessories; wedding cake toppers and party favors; secular marriage licenses and ketubot; a groom’s “best suit” worn at his 1931 nuptials; and an empty cigar box from a 1904 reception.
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