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It may be a shattering exploration of the death of the American Dream, but is “Death of a Salesman” also about a Jewish family’s denial of its heritage? Arthur Miller certainly thought so, although it took him half a century after his masterpiece was first staged to admit that the Lomans were Jewish. Now “Salesman” […]

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When last we saw Eve Adams, the intrepid Jewish bookseller at the center of Barbara Kahn’s play, “The Spring and Fall of Eve Adams,” she was under arrest. The charge was selling “obscene” novels by Henry Miller and Anais Nin, from her Jazz Age lesbian speakeasy and tearoom in Greenwich Village. As it turns out, […]

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 5:14 p.m. Torah: Exodus 21:1-24:18; 30:11-16 Haftarah: II Kings 11:17-12:17 Havdalah: 6:15 p.m.             For hundreds of years in Eastern Europe, traditional Jewish communities celebrated their key communal institutions by designating specific Shabbatot each year to honor the people who ran them. On Shabbat Yayera, for […]

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