Human Interest
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Sarah Mintz, aka Maritza RodrÃguez Gómez, is a Colombian actress and household name amongst Spanish-speakers in the US and Latin America. The former Catholic converted to Judaism and today lives in Israel as an Orthodox Jew with her husband and twin boys. For over two decades she led a successful career as a television host, […]
Pauline Schantzer was born into a Jewish family. But looking in from the outside, you wouldn’t know it. Growing up in Philadelphia in the ‘90s, she went to church with her parents. She believed in Jesus. She didn’t know any Jews; all her friends were Catholic and Christian. Eventually, she did meet Jews, at a […]
The lipstick was beautiful, in a sleek black case with the elegant "HR" monogram, with that satisfying weight of a luxury object in the palm of your hand. I was standing in a drugstore in Kazimierz, Kraków's old Jewish quarter, turning it over, admiring it. Then I checked the price tag and put it gently […]
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He couldn't say his own name until he was 25. Last year, he led the High Holiday prayers.
