About Margarita Korol
Celebrating 130 Years of Immigrant Aid
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society marks anniversary with collection of personal stories from those helped by the organization Read More
The 10 Year Itch
The 10th anniversary of a Russian Jewish organization highlights symbiotic potential with the wider Jewish community Read More
Jewish Movie Week: A Jewkrainian Watching An American Tail
To be depicted as a mouse time and again, while it beautifully illustrates the contextualized Soviet Jewish experience among persecutors, also undermines that adaptable resilience that comes with the territory. Read More
Jewcy Interviews: Mike Edison Talks Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!
Mike Edison’s “Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!” reads like the lovechild of Screw Magazine and Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. Read More
Saul Bass Forever.
Using the title sequences of some of Hollywood’s finest as his canvas, Sul Bass managed to revolutionize graphic design in introducing the fourth dimension of time. Read More
Dedushka Trotsky: Talking Trotsky With Jewkrainian Grandpas On Leon’s Special Day
It’s Trotsky’s would-be 132nd birthday today, and for the occasion, I took a risk that equated to shaking a stick at the Red Army: I sought out the thoughts of some ex-Soviets on the renegade Russky. Read More
The Monday Mazel: All The Live-Long Day
This week’s Mazels celebrate the union of several very busy people who probably won’t see much of each other until they retire Read More
The Monday Mazel: The Financiers Wed
Now that we’re through the high holiday, we await the landslide of Jewish weddings. Read More