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...documents originally belonged to the New York City-based Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the country's oldest refugee resettlement agency. The organization transferred its archives (along with those inherited from agencies it merged or cooperated with) to the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in stages from 1948 through...
...march became simply a rally, and there was only a single act of near-violence: A fanatic lunged at a drag queen belting out a gay-pride song on stage at Friday's event in the sports arena of the Hebrew University, but even in spangled high heels, the drag queen nimbly evaded the attacker, and a security guard yanked the assailant offstage by the seat of his trousers...
...verisimilitude (“cars” pulled by horses, rampant incest, extreme love of ping pong and sunbathing) is slim to none. Ironically enough given the extreme anti-Semitism of his character, Cohen’s “Kazakh” dialogue throughout the film is actually Hebrew...
...turned my attention to the Redwall saga, those enchanting tales of mice slaying snakes and badgers wielding clubs and the entire abbey feasting on pot pies and drinking cordials far into the night. And I was content. Sometimes, though, in the library for after-school (‘cause Hebrew School didn’t start till four), in between rounds of Truth or Dare, ignoring the screening of The Rescuers Down Under (as sweet as it is, they showed it every week), I might occasion a glance at the shelves. And oh! What is this rare breed? A Choose...
...well as a remarkable display of Harvard’s current musical talent. The concert began with two traditional Jewish songs that had a large presence in Bernstein’s youth in Boston. The first song featured Harvard’s Bernstein Festival Singers in the fore, singing Hebrew in unison; they then assembled into a semi-circle around the piano for the second song. The program continued with Nora I. Bartosik ’08 performing Aaron Copland’s “Piano Variations”—a piece that Bernstein is said...