“When people who don’t know or recognize me ask if I’m Jewish, I always tell them, yes, by adoption. My parents made sure my brother, sisters, and I learned early on that the entire Good Book was written by, about, and for Jews. Too many Christians don’t quite grasp that,” he says.
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“Reading from a beautifully illuminated manuscript that rolls out of an exquisitely gilt scroll case has been the traditional mode of beautifying the Purim mitzvah of reading the Megillat Esther,” says Jonathan Greenstein, founder and expert-in-charge at J. Greenstein and Company.
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performing students, distinguished guest artists salute to the gift of music.
read moreIf anyone is to blame for the recent kerfuffle over the status of Jerusalem it is not President Donald Trump, but, rather, President Barack Obama, who, a year ago, acted at the UN in lame-duck revenge against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he hated.
read moreMark Helprin is comfortable with Judaism and Israel, doesn’t see Jews as self-loathing Woody Allen wannabees, and knows Donald Trump is not an anti-Semite.
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Ms. Pascal is dedicated to the principle that cooking and food are “not meant to be feared or cause stress.”
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is presenting Sergei Prokofiev’s charming children’s classic, Peter and the Wolf.
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Jackie Mason mixing politics and comedy for the past 40 years
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