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There’s 22-year-old Emma saying the blessing over the Shabbat candles with her mother, delighted by the light, humming a synagogue tune and then covering her mother’s face with wet kisses. Together, Emma and Judith remember out loud all the people to whom they want to wish Shabbat Shalom. The pair could be an advertisement for […]
When Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn of New York saw television pictures of Albanian refugees fleeing Kosovo, their first thoughts were of how best to help them. “At first we wanted to give money to the Red Cross,” said Harriet. “But then we thought of the American Jewish Committee, where we have a good relationship.” Their […]
It’s Thursday night at Makor, the trendy new arts and performance space on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. In the movie theater, Steven Spielberg’s cinematographer, Yanosh Kaminsky, is talking about his work on “Saving Private Ryan” after a showing of the film. One floor below, Orthodox sex and relationship guru Shmuley Boteach is holding forth to […]