Rootless Cosmopolitan

Rootless Cosmopolitan

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Money, Love, and Shame!

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UPDATE: I saw Money, Love, and Shame! on Sunday night. Now, full disclosure, Yelena and Allen are old friends (and colleagues) of mine. Ho...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

The Future of American Judaism Depends on the Elimination of Yiddish: So Sayeth the German Reform Elite

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My friend Dov-Ber hipped me to a gem from the JTA Archive. It's a report from the 1923  Golden Jubilee Convention of the Union of Americ...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Not New, But Newsy

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UPDATE: Ari's podcast recap of the conference is available here . It's a fast paced 12 minutes. Check it out! My Identity paper g...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Jewish Cultural Manifesto -- Throwback Thursday

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Throwback Thursday. Would you rather see something I wrote 9 years ago or would you like to see a picture of me playing cello on our seni...
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Sunday, April 6, 2014

In Case You Missed It... Why We Need to Shut The Door On Identity

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From earlier this week: Indeed, not inculcation of Jewish patterns of life, nor transmission of Jewish culture and history, but measureme...
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

How Do You Say Open Mic in Yiddish? Find Out On April 17th at YIVO!

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Join celebrated host, actor and singer Shane Baker, and special guests for a fun, intimate night of Yiddish performance. Bring your ins...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

A Few Thoughts on the Roots of the Identity Discourse

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(paper given at last weekend's Rethinking Jewish Identity and Jewish Education conference at Brandeis) The Roots and Structure of th...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

How Well Do You Know Your Yiddish Dictionaries?

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UPDATE UPDATE (second update) According to a tweet from the Director of Digital Strategy at WNET/Channel 13, the Yiddish "quiz" i...
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Saturday, March 15, 2014

me' khapt a nosh/ a homentash...

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Purim sameakh/ a freylikhn purim, y'all. What are you doing reading this? Shouldn't you be pounding shots in a dark room in a terrib...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

PBS or Heeb? Take This Quiz!!!

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Dear PBS, When your website content is almost indistinguishable from that of Heeb, it's probably time to stop farming out your website...
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Rokhl Kafrissen is a journalist, playwright, attorney, and Jewish world gadfly in New York City.
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