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Brandeis Professor Explores ‘Sex and the Shtetl’
Gabriel Sanders | Wed. Jan 16, 2008
The timing could not have been better. When ChaeRan Freeze completed her coursework toward a doctorate in Russian Jewish history in 1993, it was just as the doors to the archives in Moscow and St. Petersburg were beginning to swing open. As a result, she was among the first to request long-untouched troves of material — material that later formed the backbone of her dissertation: a groundbreaking study of Jewish marriage and divorce in imperial Russia.
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Tutors Tackle Tinseltown
Rebecca Spence | Wed. Jan 16, 2008
When entertainment executive Marc Potash landed a job at Universal Pictures last spring, the offer didn’t come out of the blue. After all, Potash had an inside connection at Universal — not because of his background in film production, but because he had been the bar mitzvah coach of the studio co-chairman’s son.
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Holocaust Memorial Takes Flight
Aaron Greenblatt | Wed. Jan 16, 2008
Hundreds of thousands of butterflies from around the world are flocking to the Holocaust Museum Houston as part of an educational program about the Holocaust.
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