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Sheldon Kirshner

Jul 6, 2018, 5:53 PM

Three Identical Strangers

When Bobby Shafran began his first semester at an upstate New York community college nearly 40 years ago, he was greeted effusively by some students. The warm reception puzzled him, since he had never set foot on the campus....

Ziona Greenwald

Jun 21, 2018, 10:53 PM

Hollywood’s Talk of Shame

Hollywood has never been a moral bastion. Its stars have never been beacons of righteousness, unless you count self-righteousness. But the entertainment world has lately sunk to new lows. Vulgarity and profanity are no longer confined to R-rated movies and...

Herbert J. Cohen

Jun 20, 2018, 7:09 PM

Kosher Movies: First Blood

As a senior at Yeshiva University in the '60s, I solicited ads for the annual yearbook. Since I had recently purchased a Volkswagen, I asked the dealership for an ad, and they readily agreed. I sent in the ad...

S Ovwata Onojieruo

Jun 19, 2018, 2:03 AM

When’s the next world war

I began teaching my high school students about the incidents of the past world wars, and they kept looking with an expressionless face as though i needed to add a little fiction or fantasy to make history look more...

Herbert J. Cohen

Jun 14, 2018, 10:46 PM

Kosher Movies: Big

For many years I would take my ninth and tenth grade classes on a week-long trip to Washington, D.C. and New York City. Once someone asked me if I ever got bored seeing the same sights year in and...

Jun 3, 2018, 9:50 PM

CultureJew: More Movies, Finally, and Good TV

Thirteen years ago, four Kentucky college students decided to steal several valuable books from Transylvania College’s rare book collection. One of the volumes was Audubon’s “Birds of America,” worth $12 million. How these kids came up with this wild...

Herbert J. Cohen

May 30, 2018, 4:03 PM

Kosher Movies: The Hurt Locker

As a rabbi, as an educator, and as a parent, I have been asked many times for advice when friends and loved ones are going through stressful times. Sometimes I can help them, and sometimes their situation is so...

Dana Janine Diamond

May 17, 2018, 10:43 PM

A Summer Camp Memoir

This is one that is hard to begin. About a week ago, Hannah Dreyfus reported in The Jewish Week (also published in Times of Israel) on suspicions of corruption surrounding Reform Jewish summer camp programs on child sex abuse....

Graciela Berger Wegsman

May 17, 2018, 9:24 PM

Jerusalem, where the stones speak

How do you fall in love with a city? For me, my love for Jerusalem began with its stones. The stones talked to me. They told me stories; they spoke of history, love, death, beauty, empires, civilizations, time, and faith. When you fall...

Herbert J. Cohen

May 17, 2018, 3:18 PM

Kosher Movies: Splendor in the Grass

I saw Splendor in the Grass in 1961 when I was 19 years old. I was in college taking a course in English Literature and we had just read Wordsworth’s “Ode to Intimations of Immortality” focusing on the classic...

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