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A Very Woody Wedding
Huppah Dreams
Each Monday, we choose the most interestingly Jewish announcement from that Sunday’s New York Times Weddings/Celebrations section. This was quite a competitive week! Circus people. A Curb Your Enthusiasm producer. Ramaz teacher. Institutional folk. But there can only be one, and this week it’s that of Mara Hoberman and Sam Schechner, who come from a very culturally specific Jewish milieu, the one you generally see depicted in Woody Allen films (or at least the ones not set in Europe). His parents (and even stepmother) are all big in the drama world; her father is longtime Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman, author of one of my favorite essays on Jewishness, and her mother is a social worker. They first met at Hunter College High School; they live in Carroll Gardens. Well of course. Mazel tov to the happy couple!
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Sam Schneider
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
The End of the Jewish Left
Political theorist Michael Walzer and others argue about the death of the century-long Jewish-Leftist alliance
Voices Raised for Jerusalem
The Zamir Chorale brings its Jewish choral music to Jazz at Lincoln Center in celebration of Yom Yerushalayim
Old Jews Telling More Jokes
The web series ‘Old Jews Telling Jokes’ goes off-Broadway, with shtick, songs, and a script by writer Daniel Okrent
The Most Perfect Hebrew Bible
The medieval Aleppo Codex was safeguarded for centuries in Syria. The problems started when it arrived in Israel.
