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Ben Harris

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10/29/2008
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11/07/2009

Hail to the Chief

Poland’s chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, has the air of someone who enjoys being a little unorthodox. I suppose you have to be to leave behind a comfortable Upper West Side upbringing, spend six years leading a community in Japan, and after that set up shop in post-Communist Poland. He’s an Orthodox rabbi who was originally ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary, a vegetarian in a meat-and-potatoes country, and seemed to relish telling me about seeing the Grateful Dead perform at Nassau Coliseum in 1973.  Read more »

Live from Europe …

... it’s The Wandering Jew’s stories. Read more »

The Jewish Hangout of Budapest

Years ago, philanthropist Michael Steinhardt financed the establishment of Makor, a spot on the Upper West Side that was supposed to allow Jews to do Jewish, and sometimes not-so-Jewish, things in a Jewish space that didn’t scream I’M A JEWISH SPACE! Read more »

Leipzig becoming Orthodox Jewish hub in Germany

Due in large part to Jewish immigration from the former Soviet Union, Leipzig has become an Orthodox Jewish hub, funneling students from around the region to institutions of Jewish learning in Berlin and beyond. Read more »

German city juggles challenges, benefits of Russian Jewish immigration

The arrival in Germany of some 90,000 Russian Jewish immigrants over the last 20 years has enabled an astonishing rejuvenation of Jewish life in Germany, but also handed German Jews the challenge of integrating a culturally and linguistically distinct group that generally lacks Jewish knowledge and an understanding of democratic norms. Read more »

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Posted in: Afterburn

you're right menachem. much of what happens BM i would want to see of the playa. it's the naked guys in bicycles i could probably do without.

Posted in: Eliezrie on Agri

fixed -- sorry bout that.

Posted in: Herzfeld v. Lewin, Round 2

The link has been corrected.

Posted in: Food fodder

why isn't the issue whether it's OK for journalists to be taken out to lunch by the people they cover?

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