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‘The Talmud,” the cultural mash-up of a play by Jesse Freedman, is not a play in the orthodox sense, so to speak, but an artistic rendering of the text of Gittin 55-57, a Talmudic passage about divorce. In the 75-minute show (running through Sept. 28 at The Doxsee in Brooklyn), different actors read aloud three […]

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This is the end of Elul, the last full week before Rosh Hashanah, and the time to ask what Rav Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810) calls the “final and ultimate” human question: lamah li chayim? What is the meaning of my life? What is the point of it all? What should drive us? No amount of […]

It was D-Day — June 6, 1944 — and Allied bombs were exploding all around Rouen, capital of the French region of Normandy and site of the famed painter Claude Monet’s architectural obsession, the soaring medieval Cathedral of Nôtre Dame. The church escaped destruction. Fans of the iconic Impressionist painter’s Rouen Cathedral series, portraying the […]

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