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Mathilde Krim died yesterday, at age 91. In 1983, she founded the AIDS Medical Foundation (AMF), the first private organization working in AIDS research and advocacy, which merged with The American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) in 1985.

Mathilde Krim died yesterday, at age 91. In 1983, she founded the AIDS Medical Foundation (AMF), the first private organization working in AIDS research and advocacy, which merged with The American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmfAR) in 1985.

What’s on your mind when you sit in Yom Kippur services? Is it an account of the last year of your shortcomings? Is it just that one that really bothers you? Is it the interminable Yizkor service?

What’s on your mind when you sit in Yom Kippur services? Is it an account of the last year of your shortcomings? Is it just that one that really bothers you? Is it the interminable Yizkor service?

There is a small Kosher grocery store that I go to, among others in the Melbourne “ghetto” of East St. Kilda. The immediate area, main drag Carlisle Street, is home to three kosher bakeries, two Judaica stores, a couple of kosher cafes (one of which sells excellent sushi, of course), a kosher candy store, and two groceries, one large and one, Tempo, small, the place that supplies Chalav Yisrael products to the minority within the minority who care about Chalav Yisrael. It looks like your classic sort of kosher bodega... Читать дальше...

Some sad news for O.G. Real Housewives of New York City fans, as well as connoisseurs of a particular kind of Jewish masculinity: Bobby Zarin, the undisputed Fabric King of the Lower East Side and husband to former RHONY star Jill Zarin, died this weekend after a long battle with metastatic thyroid cancer. He was 71.

Some sad news for O.G. Real Houswives of New York City fans, as well as connoisseurs of a particular kind of Jewish masculinity: Bobby Zarin, the undisputed Fabric King of the Lower East Side and husband to former RHONY star Jill Zarin, died this weekend after a long battle with metastatic thyroid cancer. He was 71.

Democracy dies in darkness: Lebanon announced earlier this week that it will not permit public screenings of Steven Spielberg’s The Post, because the director had filmed scenes of Schindler’s List in Jerusalem, thereby violating The Censorship Committee of the General Security Directorate’s “boycott Israel” policy. The Post, starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep and focusing on the publication of the Pentagon Papers, was scheduled to premiere in Beirut on January 18.

Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world.

Thirty years after the release of Broadcast News, the movie looks awfully old-fashioned. Journalists are tethered to telephone cords; reporters use stopwatches to time their voice-overs and production assistants ferry giant videotapes to and fro; shoulder pads are as wide as the generation gap. The first time we see Holly Hunter, playing TV news producer Jane Craig, she’s power-walking in leg warmers and a lavender tracksuit jacket with reflective stripes. Elbows high, arms pumping, she marches up to a phalanx of six (six. Читать дальше...