Maurice Sendak, Remembered [Z”L]

By pkessler May 8, 2012

As John so eloquently posted yesterday, the death of a celebrity always leads to an outpouring of grief, real or feigned. Maurice Sendak’s profound influence on children over the past fifty years stands on its own. And if I may hypothesize, someone who spent so much of his life breaking barriers wouldn’t want to be…

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Jewish ‘Avengers’; Maurice Sendak passes at 83; Coalition governments, and more [Required Reading]

By pkessler May 8, 2012

Jewish ‘Avengers’ [JTA] As the latest round of superhero adaptations makes its way into theaters, JTA harks back to its Jewish roots, which this time, go further than the creators. The Avengers was a handle taken on by a group of Jewish resistance fighters in Lithuania during World War Two. “So as you’re chewing on…

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