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Rent In Manhattan Is Expensive

I guess rent is expensive everywhere. But in Manhattan, especially, I would not wish these rent bills on my worst ...

Anticipating Day after Night

Next week, we’re going to have Anita Diamant, author of the new book Day after Night, blogging for us. It’s ...

A Golem in Brazil

The Apple in the Dark, Clarice Lispector’s fourth novel, was published in Rio de Janeiro in 1961, five years after ...

Kids, You’re On Your Own

Wouldn’t this be a cool legacy? Imagine, when you died, to honor your life, the company you created ceased to ...

The Oldest Jews in Brazil

In his last blog, Benjamin Moser wrote about chasing Clarice Lispector around the world.In the oldest synagogue in the New ...

Chasing Clarice Lispector

Benjamin Moser, author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, is guest-blogging for MyJewishLearning and the Jewish Book ...

The Holocaust–LOL or FML?

I’ve blogged about it more than any other movie that’s come out this year. Hell, I don’t even really love ...

A Scholar At Woodstock

“Guess who eats together at the Carnegie Deli. Bowzer from Sha Na Na and Arthur Fonzarelli.”Adam Sandler is right. Jon ...

The Week That Was

As the week comes to a close, it is time to look back at the best of times. There were ...

The Most Dangerous Contraband of All

In his last blogs, Charles London talked about a collected Jewish museum and the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda.The ancient Israelites ...

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