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Is Your Date FDA Approved?
It dawned on me the other day that dating is a totally unregulated industry.I mean, where is the FDA when you need them?Which is another way of saying, why did the guy I once went out with who spent...
View ArticleThe Shtetl, Reconsidered
Eric Herschthal Staff Writer A new generation of scholars is upending traditional notions of Jewish ‘memory’ and why Jews left Eastern Europe.When the historian Rebecca Kobrin began researching her...
View ArticleDeath, and "Fiddler of the Roof"
My story this week is about the scholars who are pushing hard against myths about the shtetl, especially the kind peddled by "Fiddler on the Roof." As it happens, the composer of that Tony-winning...
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