Baby Boomers
As the Jewish Community Goes Gray, Synagogues Adapt To Serve Older Congregants
Baby boomers and seniors are a growing segment of the community, with specific needs for programming, rituals, and accessibility
Against the 1970s
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo is a beautiful film and also a document of everything that’s rotten about the generation that came of age in the 1970s
My Generation
R. Crumb, Genesis, feminism, and history in the latest chapter of an illustrated memoir
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How a British Museum Curator Discovered Noah’s Ark Would Have Been Round
Irving Finkel, an expert on ancient Mesopotamia, decodes a Babylonian tablet and traces its path to the Book of Genesis
After the Holocaust, the Dutch Tried To Collect Past Due Taxes From Survivors
How one shy, whistle-blowing intern in an Amsterdam archive uncovered a travesty that insulted a decimated community
Centuries Ago, Jews Were Farmers Like Everybody Else. Why Did They Leave the Fields?
Two economists argue that literacy, not laws forbidding land ownership, created a small, widely dispersed and highly skilled minority
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