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Friday, August 14th, 2009
Check this out, Navasky on Sidney, in The Tablet.

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
On a day dedicated to remembering exile and expulsion, here’s an excellent film, “Home Game,” about the “disengagement,” the surrealistic self-ethnic cleansing, of Jews from Gaza — four years ago, this week.   
 

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

Monday, July 13th, 2009
Here’s Steve Lipman’s visit to the Orthodox Bunaglows Baseball League. Sheldon Silver was a player but not Pedro Espada.
 
And here’s a terrific piece by Andy Silow-Carroll, editor of the New Jersey Jewish News, on the many virtues of Jewish bungalow life, and his own bungalow memories:
 

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Check out this Garrison Keillor essay on state fairs.
 
The best county fair less than 75 miles from New York, the Orange County Fair, is coming July 23-August 2.
 
A small rural fair, but worth your curiosity, comes and goes too quickly in Sullivan County’s Grahamsville, August 14-16.
 

Monday, July 6th, 2009
Here’s why. Are you wondering what this has to do with The Jewish Week? It’s this: Some of us read every story, looking for the Jewish angle. Did you find it?