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Want to relive the first flutters of summer love while brushing up your Jewish comedy chops and finding out what happens to a chaise-lounge after a couple decades of exposure to the elements? Starting this Sunday, May 10, the National Yiddish Book Center gives you an excuse to take a trip to beautiful western Massachusetts: […]

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The 1920 German silent film The Golem is a classic of early cinema–dark, tortured, dated, and silly, but also genuinely creepy at points. The film is based on an ancient Jewish folktale in which a medieval rabbi molds a giant man from clay, brings him to life with kabbalistic incantations, and uses him to protect the town’s Jewish population from a violent pogrom. In […]

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Starting in 1975, Debbie Peagler was prostituted, controlled, and repeatedly beaten by Oliver Wilson. Eight years later, she finally managed to escape from him, by convincing two gang members to kill him. In 1984, nine-year-old Joshua Safran witnessed his mother horribly beaten by her husband. Eighteen years later, in 2002, Safran– an Orthodox Jew and a lawyer–agrees to represent Peagler. […]

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