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By Rabbi Norman Lamm, zt’l August 28, 1954—As we welcome the month of Ellul on this very important Shabbat, I am inclined to recall how Jews of old once experienced the same event. The solemnity and sacredness that was ushered in with this penitential season, this forty-day period of teshuvah, was more than just an […]

I do not envy those tasked with evoking the kinetic, effervescent, impermanent art of dance using the stolid, literal written word. For nearly a decade, I reviewed dance performances for the Columbus Dispatch, the metro daily newspaper in Columbus, Ohio. What I saw was often exciting — the hushed solemnity of George Balanchine’s Serenade, the New York vim and vigor of Jerome Robbins’s Fancy Free, the disorderly mischief of the drag troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.

Digging down into the roots of white America’s infatuation with Black.

In his generations-spanning new book, the anthropologist tracks the story of Jewish life in Latin America through the travails of one family.