Category Archives: Culture
Discovery of Buried Mikveh Prompts an Historical Overview of Baltimore’s Orthodox History
The report last month that a 166-year-old mikveh, dating from, at the latest, 1845, had been uncovered under the historic Lloyd Street Synagogue in Baltimore, had deep resonance for The Jewish Voice and Opinion’s observer, social critic, and demographic analyst Catriel Sugarman. Mr. Sugarman, who authors The Jewish Voice’s periodic “Catriel’s Notebook” feature, was the last bar mitzvah ever celebrated in the Lloyd Street Synagogue.
“Nora’s Will,” Probes Family Secrets and Suicide in a Mexican-Jewish Family
Tweet “Nora’s Will,” a new film written and directed by Mariana Chenillo, is billed as a comedy. In fact, while there are sparks of humor, drawn from the inexorably sad premise of the story, the film—Ms. Chenillo’s first feature—is more about family tensions and ingenuity in solving what seem like intractable problems, made more complicated [...]
An Ambitious “Wallenberg” in White Plains Demonstrates the Power of One, the Capacity of Us All
Tweet By Samuel Morrison The story of Raoul Wallenberg, the young Swedish diplomat who in a six-month period during the waning months of World War Two saved more than 100,000 Hungarian Jews from extermination, has, over the years, been told in several books, television programs, movies, and, of course, personal accounts of some of those [...]
Important Reading: Forced Transfer throughout the World, Evidence that the Jews Really Did Wander through Sinai, and What To Do about Iran
Tweet Reviewed by Dr. Alex Grobman, author of The Palestinian Right to Israel, available at Amazon.com Removing Peoples: Forced Removal in the Modern World (Studies of the German Historical Institute London), Richard Bessel and Claudia B. Haake, Editors (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 468 pages, $150.00 In the introduction to this book, Richard Bessel, [...]
Symphonia Orchestra Offers Personalized, Exciting, Unique, and Elegant Music and Performers for Simchas and Events
Tweet An increasing number of families and organizations are selecting the Symphonia Orchestra as their first choice for music and entertainment to enhance their simchas and celebrations. But it’s not just the music and entertainment that make the experience so satisfying; it’s also the personalized, individualized, and creative attention each customer receives that makes it [...]
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