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Ellen Umansky

Ellen Umansky is a senior editor at Tablet Magazine.

  • Cohen and his restaurant.(Photoillustration by Tablet Magazine; photos by Ellen Umansky)
    Cohen and his restaurant.(Photoillustration by Tablet Magazine; photos by Ellen Umansky)
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    Little Tunisia

    Chef Alain Cohen brings a taste of North Africa to Los Angeles

    byEllen Umansky
  • A billboard advertising Murder at the Mikvah(Newton Area Photo)
    A billboard advertising Murder at the Mikvah(Newton Area Photo)
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    Message in a Bottleneck

    How did a self-published first novel about ritual-bath murder end up plastered on prime Philadelphia billboards?

    byEllen Umansky
  • (Courtesy Kiddie Korner)
    (Courtesy Kiddie Korner)
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    The Rebbe’s Teachings

    As Chabad opens preschools across the country, secular parents try to reconcile the movement with the classroom

    byEllen Umansky
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    Death of a Pothead

    Elisa Albert talks about her first novel—a coming-of-death tragicomedy

    byEllen Umansky
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    How to Make It to the Promised Land

    A short story explores what happens when a camp game goes horribly awry

    byEllen Umansky
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    Grave Digger

    Nathan Englander unearths stories that many in Argentina would just as soon forget

    byEllen Umansky
  • (Wikipedia)
    (Wikipedia)
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    Asch’s Passion

    A popular Yiddish novelist strove for immortality by taking on Jesus, but it cost him his core audience and made him a marked man

    byEllen Umansky
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    Ironing On Irony

    Celebrities and trendwatchers have an eye out for T-shirts that play on Jewish identity. Are they celebrating an era of acceptance or anxiety?

    byEllen Umansky
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