Rachel Goldberg-Polin: “We’re in a real Chanukah moment, because today, like in the story of Chanukah, asking ourselves who we are, who we want to be, what we want to project to the world, and our why, are the most important questions…” [Donald H. Harrison]
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Oded Schramm (December 10, 1961 – September 1, 2008) was an Israeli-American mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution (SLE) and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory. [Wikipedia]
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I make a latke variation with just potatoes, onions, and garlic. I shred potatoes, zucchinis, and carrots. I use powdered onion and garlic powder, faux cheese, and fry in olive oil. It probably still makes the same mess of oil splatters as the traditional latkes. [Cailin Acosta]
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Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said her country’s failure to deliver an agreed amount of water to Texas is not because of ill will, but because of “the amount of water there is and the amount of water that can be taken by pipeline.” [Donald H. Harrison]
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Across English and Arabic content, CyberWell found that the majority of emojis and code words categorize Jews into four dehumanizing archetypes: animals, devils, proxies and classic tropes. [Press Release]
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A concern that has been sitting quietly in the back of my mind about Jewish communal continuity came into sharper focus at the Z3 conference at the Lawrence Family JCC in La Jolla. It was not the content that troubled me. [Karen Klein]
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Joshua Bell (December 9, 1967) is an American violinist and conductor. He is the music director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. {Wikipedia]
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The San Diego Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Singapore-born guest conductor, Kahchun Wong, opened the December 7 concert with a work, subito con forza (suddenly with force), by the Chinese composer, Unsuk Chin, inspired by Beethoven’s 250 Birthday. [Eileen Wingard]
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: Since I’ve been a member of Congress, we’ve had several resolutions that constantly denounce antisemitism. I’ve already voted denouncing antisemitism many times before. It becomes an exercise that they force on Congress, and I simply got tired of it. [Answering Lesley Stahl on ’60 Minutes.’
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Rabbi Shira Milgrom has served as spiritual leader of Congregation Kol Ami in White Plains, New York, for 37 years and edited the widely used Reform prayerbook Mishkan T’filah. She is also the daughter of Jacob Milgrom, the towering 20th-century biblical scholar and author of the monumental Anchor Bible commentary on Leviticus—a man I was privileged to know personally and whose rigorous, humane scholarship continues to shape Jewish thought. [Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel]
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Noting that New York is home to the largest Jewish community outside of Israel, President Herzog said that there is now “a mayor-elect who shows utter contempt to the nation state of the Jewish people.” [Press Release]
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While Gehry’s Judaism was not a primary part of his identity, what is one creative design that he noted was inspired by his religious background? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
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Lucian Freud (December 8, 1922 – July 20, 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, who is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. [Wikipedia]
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Yakov enjoyed listening to the speeches of the leaders of the future revolution. The speakers were brilliant and competed with each other. One day he was listening to Trotsky and was struck by his speech. According to Trotsky, everything was clear – who was to blame, what to do, and how. [Alex Gordon]
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