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How not to get home for the seder

1 week ago | jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Larry Yudelson |Deb Herman

As Passover winds down, here’s hoping that your travel plans worked out better than those of one unfortunate Israeli man whose efforts to return to his home in Safir were foiled by Israel’s Sabbath-observing public transportation schedule, his own erratic driving, and ultimately the Israeli police.
Climbing a tree, nourishing the soul

1 week ago | jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Curt Schleier |Deb Herman

Tina Landau is having quite a year. She opened two shows on Broadway this season, in itself a remarkable feat. But what makes it extraordinary is that she wrote and directed both. “Floyd Collins” is in previews at Lincoln Center, but the play I really want to talk about is “Redwood.” It is the most positive Jewish play in decades. “Parade,” “Prayers for the French Republic,” “Leopoldstadt,” even “Fiddler on the Roof” are rooted in antisemitism.
A truly cruel April Fool’s joke

1 week ago | jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Shammai Engelmayer |Deb Herman

If they gave out an award for the sickest April Fool’s joke, the current White House crowd most certainly would be among this year’s finalists, if not the winners. April 1, of course, is April Fool’s Day, but it is also a day on which all manner of formally recognized annual month-long civic observances are presidentially proclaimed — observances only a fool would turn his or her back on.
YU makes baseball history in Teaneck

2 weeks ago | jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Larry Yudelson |Deb Herman

What happens when a yielding object meets a totally resistible force? That’s the metaphysical question underlying the fascination with the baseball doubleheader held in Teaneck on Tuesday, which pitted the two losingest teams in collegiate baseball in a match that promised to break a multiyear losing streak — and in fact broke two. Lehman College hadn’t won a baseball game since 2023; it’s lost 42 games in a row.
Remembering Hy Eisman

3 weeks ago | jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Larry Yudelson |Deb Herman

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story first ran on December 21, 2018. It won the first place Rockower award for excellence in personality profiles that year. Hy Eisman died on Sunday, March 27; it was his 98th birthday. His survivors include his daughters, Merle and Mindy; Merle’s husband, Steven Carrus, and Mindy’s husband, Leon Schneiderman; his grandchildren, Danielle, Scott, and Tali; his great grandchildren, Adi and Yara, his partner, Cary Matzkin, and other family members.
NCAA men’s Final Four features 3 Jewish coaches

3 weeks ago | jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Ben Sales |Deb Herman

It’s official: The three Jewish coaches who entered the NCAA men’s basketball tournament as top seeds have all reached the Final Four. The fourth men’s team has a player who was once part of Israel’s national youth squad. All three Jewish-coached men’s teams won their Elite Eight matchups last weekend, sending them to the final stages of March Madness. On Saturday, Todd Golden’s Florida beat Texas Tech, and Jon Scheyer’s Duke beat Alabama.
Yet another look at local WZC delegates

3 weeks ago | jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer |Deb Herman

The election for delegates to the 39th World Zionist Congress, which opened in late March, will remain open until May 4.
Unmuting the silent voices

3 weeks ago | jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer |Deb Herman

It is not trawling for pity to say that it is hard being divorced, that it is harder to be divorced if you are a woman than if you are a man, and that it is particularly hard to be divorced and therefore feel alone in a thriving community made up, apparently overwhelmingly, of happy families.
Is that your real face?

3 weeks ago | jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Banji Ganchrow |Deb Herman

I sit before you at the beauty parlor, as my grandmother would call it. As I have written about before, my Oreos, for some reason, do not like when their mother goes gray, so here I am. I would rather be almost anywhere else. But the last time I tried to color my own hair, it turned a lovely shade of orange, so that was the end of that.
Life as Mrs. Lincoln

3 weeks ago | jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer |Deb Herman

I don’t mean that, of course. Time has smoothed the horror of that night in Ford’s Theatre, 160 years ago, into a punchline. We used to pull it out when conversation had to move on from something grim but distant to the lighter present. It used to be funny, when it was done right. Now, though, it’s a daily refrain. Life is so complicated right now that many of us have become perpetual Mrs. Lincolns.