Exhibits Lox With Black Beans & Rice: Portraits of Cuban Jews in South Florida In 30 large-format candid images and brief oral histories, Randi Sidman-Moore

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In one of Maira Kalman’s self-portraits, a lopsided pair of blue eyes peers out of a penciled face cradled by a fur-collared coat. Black galoshes

I love Shavuot, the springtime holiday also known as the Festival of Weeks, which marks the end of a seven-week period following Passover and celebrates

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Rav Shlomo Yitzchaki, the revered 11th-century commentator on the Bible and the Babylonian Talmud, has suddenly emerged, in an odd confluence of events, as the