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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Manager Devorah S. Sperling of “Outings & Innings,” a service which offers perks for Harvard faculty and staff, said that although she has not yet been contacted by the Center, “there has been interest in partnering with Passim to get discounted tickets...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Country Singer Krauss To Perform | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

About halfway through Trembling Before G-d, a controversial documentary by Sandi L. Dubowski ’92 about homosexuality in Orthodox Judaism, the film reaches the story of Devorah, a married Chasidic woman who considers herself a lesbian. A man and his wife shown in silhouette light the traditional Friday night candles as Devorah explains that she proposed a platonic relationship with her husband. He flatly refuses; the outline of the candles turns into bars...

Author: By Jayme J. Herschkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Trembling’ Director Confesses at HFA | 11/7/2003 | See Source »

...Dubowski found seven people who agreed to appear in various degrees of anonymity. Some, like Devorah, appear in silhouette with a disguised voice. Others, like David, simply withhold their last names...

Author: By Jayme J. Herschkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Trembling’ Director Confesses at HFA | 11/7/2003 | See Source »

...child who reimagines the lives of her parents clearly is also bound to paint her own self-portrait using the reflections in their eyes. And so it happens for Devorah Arnow as she memorializes her mother Chenia, a Russian Jewish emigre who settled in Brooklyn in the middle of the 20th century, raised a family, grew old, but never really got off the boat from Europe. Chenia, as Devorah reconstructs her in Carole Glickfeld's Swimming Toward the Ocean (Knopf; 388 pages; $24), lingers on a sort of moral gangplank with a view of the dazzling rides at Coney Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seven New Voices | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

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