Summer is tomatoes and blockbusters, and more
| 11:00 AM Jul 23, 2010
Today in Tablet Magazine, contributing editor Joan Nathan tells you exactly what to do with those great summer tomatoes. Liel Leibovitz manages to fit both Isaiah and Inception into his weekly haftorah column. Roslyn Bernstein finds that a visit to Coney Island today brings back memories of the Coney Island of old. The Scroll is ...
A visit to the new Coney Island sparks memories of the boardwalks of yore
| 7:00 AM Jul 23, 2010
On a warm Saturday in June, accompanied by Ruvane Tide Shapiro, age 2 and ¾, the youngest of my eight grandchildren, I took a field trip to Coney Island. It was the day of the 2010 Mermaid Parade, but the idea was to visit the Coney Island Aquarium and the boardwalk and tour the new ...
The Coney Island attraction who made wrestling history
| 7:00 AM Dec 17, 2009
One of the convenient aspects of studying Jewish history is its 3,000-year-old paper trail—the texts and records of the rabbinical and intellectual elite allow us to examine contours of Jewish law and history. But we tend to know less about the lives of average Jews, who didn’t receive much attention in the writings of the ...
A Coney Island diary
| 12:50 PM Feb 26, 2009
People read about Coney Island to avoid visiting Coney Island. People visit Coney Island to avoid living in Coney Island. And what of the people—like this author—who live in Coney Island? They live in Coney Island to avoid writing about Coney Island. Which does not explain what I’m doing now.
This winter, however, this winter of ...
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