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(JNS) — The Netflix animated series “Long Story Short,” which premiered last month, is drawing attention both for its creator, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, of “BoJack Horseman” fame, and for its treatment of Jewish family life through humor. The series follows the Schwoopers, a middle-class Jewish family, across decades. It proceeds in a non-linear fashion, highlighting the tensions, joys and incongruities of American Jewish life. Jeremy Dauber, Atran professor of Yiddish language, literature and culture at Columbia University and director of its In...
(JNS) — The U.S. Postal Service dedicated a new, two-ounce stamp honoring Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, during a first-day-of-issue ceremony on Tuesday at the 92nd Street Y on New York City’s Upper East Side. The 18th which the Postal Service has issued in its distinguished Americans series, the stamp features a black-and-white portrait of Wiesel. It will serve as a permanent rate stamp for two-ounce mail. The half-hour ceremony drew about 100 people, inc...
(JNS) — Jason Stahl, 47, of Hank Schwartz’s Delicatessen and Appetizing in Jersey City, N.J., launched a Rosh Hashanah-inspired sandwich this year called “sweet new year.” Error! Filename not specified. A Jersey Jew tomato sandwich from Hank Schwartz’s Delicatessen and Appetizing in Jersey City, N.J. Credit: Courtesy of Jason Stahl. The $18 sandwich, which consists of slow-cooked brisket, horseradish mayonnaise and caramelized onions on challah, is available for preorder. Customers can pick it up on Sept. 21 at Riverview Farmers Market in...
