The process of applying for and obtaining an immigrant visa, uprooting one’s life and moving to the other side of the globe is stressful enough under normal circumstances, especially when children are involved. But what about during a global pandemic?
MenschUp programs — online workshops, as well as more intimate conversations for smaller groups, or “MenschUp minyans,” led by Ophir Haberer — are designed to help men feel more comfortable being vulnerable with each other.
As of the end of June, more than 30 tons of rice, potatoes, sugar and cooking oil have been distributed to about 620 Bnei Menashe families in the states of Manipur and Mizoram.
Lil Dicky’s artistic MO is to take something familiar and flip it on its head through shocking humor (usually of the sexual variety), brutal honesty and technical innovation.
“I’m not looking to build Yankee Stadium. I want to build a community baseball diamond for kids to play on that’s safe, where they can come out on the weekend and play catch with friends or hold a little game.”
According to Kanofsky, her workshops provide participants with an opportunity to bring a question or challenge in their lives to a tree and “open themselves to the counsel of the tree, as if the tree is a rabbi,” she said.
When Pnina Pfeuffer first saw “Shtisel,” the acclaimed Israeli television series about a fictional haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, family in Jerusalem, her reaction was, “Oh wow, they got it right!”
The creator of the popular Israeli TV series “Arab Labor” and author of four novels is busier than ever, juggling coursework in a comparative literature program at Washington University while working on several television projects.