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Jewish Online Resources 6/30/23

By Reporter staff

A variety of Jewish groups are offering educational and recreational online resources. Below is a sampling of those. The Reporter will publish additional listings as they become available. 

The Jewish Museum will hold the two part class “Art in Context: Sargent and the…

Addendum

The soccer exhibition mentioned in “Soccer memories of Zurich” by Arieh Ullmann, which appeared on page 1 in the June 2 issue of The Reporter, was housed in the museum of FC Zurich, a professional soccer club. FC Zurich and FC Hakoah have maintained a friendship that is decades-old, whi…

Off the Shelf: Resistance and hiding in plain sight

By Rabbi Rachel Esserman

Fiction making history come alive: that describes two recent novels about World War II. Pam Jenoff and J. C. Maetis (better known as thriller writer John Matthews) take lesser known events from the war and create page-turning works about those who resisted or hid f…

On the Jewish food scene: “Immersive” research in Jewish deli culture, pt 2

By Bill Simons

The 35 years from the end of World War I to the end of the Korean War marked the heyday of the Jewish deli. New York City, then home to more than half of American’s Jews, was the deli capital, although areas of Jewish settlement across the U.S. had their own establishments.…

Jewish Online Resources 6/16/23

By Reporter staff

A variety of Jewish groups are offering educational and recreational online resources. Below is a sampling of those. The Reporter will publish additional listings as they become available. 

Uri L’Tzedek, Orthodox Social Justice, will hold “Walking towards a more tole…