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New Lehrhaus rises from HaMaqom's ashes – J.


Almost immediately after learning that the unique Jewish adult education center HaMaqom would be closing, Rachel and David Biale Jewish educators with links to the Berkeley institution since its founding in the 1970s knew they had to do something.
“Lehrhaus has been what I would call the crown jewel of the Bay Area Jewish community for 47 years,” David Biale said, referring to the center’s former name for 45 of those years (it was changed to HaMaqom | The Place in 2019). “It fulfills a very important need in the community. To see it disappear feels just wrong.”
Founded as Lehrhaus Judaica in 1974, HaMaqom announced in a June 17 press release that it would be permanently shutting its doors at the end of the summer. Board president Lisa Douglass said at the time that the decision to dissolve the nonprofit had been “extraordinarily difficult,” adding that she believed it was “not the end [but] a new beginning for our programs, staff, and extraordinary educ ....

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What Happens to Philip Roth's Legacy Now? - The New York Times


What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now?
His single authorized biography is mired in controversy. Scholars say it shouldn’t be the last word, but they are struggling for access to his vast and in some cases inaccessible private archives.
Philip Roth at his New York City home in 2018. His friends worry that the controversy around his biography, published this year, has affected his legacy.Credit.Philip Montgomery for The New York Times
June 4, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Late in his life, Philip Roth occasionally joked that he had two great calamities ahead of him: death and a biography. “Let’s hope the first comes first,” he said in a 2013 interview. ....

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