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Kapotes and kosher

By Ben Harris · February 24, 2010

Canada’s consulate in New York hosted an evening of cutting-edge Jewish tailoring and Canadian kosher food products.

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Role playing with rabbis

By Ben Harris · February 19, 2010

Actors help rabbis train to handle tough counseling situations.

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And …. Done!

By Ben Harris · February 4, 2010

A Palestinian chef and peace activist demonstrates how to work with local Jerusalem herbs and spices.

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Anat Hoffman questioned

By Ben Harris · January 7, 2010

Catching up with a leader of the Women of the Wall.

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The singles arrive

By Ben Harris · January 5, 2010

The Wandering Jew files a video report from his Nefesh B’Nefesh-JDub flight to Israel.

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Last Jews of Helena

By Ben Harris · December 9, 2009

Here’s video from my weekend in Helena, Ark.

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Partying Like a Jew

By Ben Harris · December 1, 2009

Bittersweet to say, but The Wandering Jew’s last video from Europe has gone live.

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My last day in Poland was a day of celebration and commemoration elsewhere in Europe. In Germany, crowds were gathering in front of the Brandenburg Gate to mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, while across the world Jewish communities were preparing to mark the anniversary of Kristallnacht. It was a rainy morning, but still I trudged out to the Okopowa Street Jewish cemetery, among the largest in Europe, to see the progress of a project to record information from the tombstones for a searchable online database.

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Culture Shock

By Ben Harris · November 10, 2009

Don’t quite know what to make of this video. It’s supposed to ease American culture shock in Hungary. But I think it actually exacerbates it. Regardless, it features Adam Schonberger (of Siraly fame). Was this actually commissioned by a New York cultural forum?