By Gabrielle Birkner
ReelAbilities is a four-year-old festival of films about people with disabilities. It started in New York but major Jewish community interest and funding are taking it nationwide.
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By Gabrielle Birkner
What happens when Jewish parents decide to share with the blogosphere their toddler’s fight to survive? Gabrielle Birkner tells a tale of hope and loss for the Internet age.
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By Gabrielle Birkner
Eitan Fishbane wrote his potent, poetic new memoir, ‘Shadows in Winter,’ after the death of his wife, Leah, who was pregnant with the couple’s second child when she died of a brain tumor.
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By Gabrielle Birkner
Passover Seders are a longstanding tradition at Brigham Young University, a Mormon institution in Provo Utah. But attendees will have to do without the four glasses of wine.
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By Gabrielle Birkner
As a young boy, Julian Schnabel accompanied his parents to a grand Broadway theater to see a screening of “Exodus” — the 1960 melodrama that depicts the founding of the state of Israel. During a scene in which Jewish refugees launch into a celebratory rendition of “
Hatikvah,” Schnabel recalls how moviegoers, his family included, leapt to their feet, put their hands over their hearts and sang along.
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