Rootless Cosmopolitan

Rootless Cosmopolitan

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Nearly Lost Language Found By Intrepid Students Again. And Again. And Again.

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Nearly lost Yiddish language increasingly popular among Jewish college students This article from the JNS says that college students are ...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Journalist, Attorney, Angry Lady About Town and... Playwright?

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Now seems like a good time to share some exciting news. For the past few months/years I've been working on/sweating blood over my first ...
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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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Rokhl Kafrissen is a journalist, playwright, attorney, and Jewish world gadfly in New York City.
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