The Guardian calls the show, featuring masterworks recovered from the Nazis, “remarkable”: “Rarely does one walk away from a gallery with a spinning head, thinking of the life led by the paintings, drawings and objects themselves,” writes Jordan Hoffman. LOOT: Reviews are split over the new exhibit at Manhattan’s Jewish Museum, “ Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art.” “Stepping outside my own life into Sara’s has somehow filled part of that space my son once occupied,” Plush writes. The calls with the 93-year-old were arranged by the Queens Community House.ICYMI: JTA reports on a new support group for Jewish parents who are resisting circumcision.ĬALL COMFORT: New Yorker Rita Plush lost her son to a terrible illness, but found solace in her weekly phone chats with a homebound elderly woman.The Jewish Week’s Andrew Silow-Carroll discusses how a changing Jewish community may seize on arguments like Shteyngart’s.SOMETHING NEW: Novelist Gary Shteyngart’s New Yorker article about his botched circumcision offers something new in the debate over the practice: a non-polemical personal account that raises uncomfortable questions for rabbis and mohels. Jordan Burnette, himself of Riverdale, is not due back in court until next January.INDICTED: A grand jury Friday indicted a 30-year-old man on 76 counts of criminal mischief and hate crimes for a vandalism spree that targeted four synagogues in Riverdale in April. They’ll discuss Jewish memory, history, identity and antisemitism. ET, for a conversation with writer Dara Horn - author of the new essay collection, “People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Present” - and Abraham Foxman, national director emeritus of the Anti-Defamation League. Join the Jewish Week and UJA-Federation tonight, 6:00 p.m.
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