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Making Time (opens the original)
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Placemaking, like gentrification, has become one of those watchwords that means everything and nothing. As Potter Stewart once said of pornography, you know it when you see it.Walk through any American city big and small and you will recognize the material vocabulary of placemaking: the food truck corrals, the painted crosswalks, the movable seating and string lights and pop-up markets and murals. All the telltale signs of a place being made.Is it?<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" hre
Sandy in the Bardo (opens the original)
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On October 6th, 1965, Sandy Koufax did not pitch Game 1 of the World Series. The Los Angeles Dodgers were playing the Minnesota Twins and Koufax was the best pitcher in baseball, arguably the best pitcher who had ever lived, at that particular moment. But it was Yom Kippur that day. So Sandy didn’t pitch. Dodgers manager, Walter Alston, started Don Drysdale instead.TEL explores Jewish histories in cityscapes across the diaspora. Help make it happen. Subscribe now - s
Love Comes in Spurts (opens the original)
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Richard Hell’s “Love Comes in Spurts” is one of my favorite Jewish traditionals.The man born Richard Lester Meyers, a Jewish Baby Boom Kentuckian, made good as a Lower East Side punk rock progenitor and the purveyor of the Blank Generation. Hell, who still lives in the same rent-controlled East Village apartment he moved into in 1974, cast himself as an iconocl
Delta Jews, Retiring (opens the original)
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Earlier this year, TEL published a series about the Jews of Clarksdale, Mississippi, a small but significant, and now lost, community of Southern Jews. These Delta Jews built businesses on Issaquena Avenue, creating spaces that were open for Black Southerners to come together - when other spaces segregated off - in the town that birthed the Blues. Traces of the synagogue on Catalpa Street remain, the population of the cemetery still growing, while the community is not. The series was the beginni
Redux: Do You Want to Take My Shorts? (opens the original)
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As many readers may know, before TEL was TEL, it was, albeit briefly, Different Landscapes. Different Landscapes was intended to serve as both soapbox and sandbox to explore the physical and emotional, corporeal and temporal landscapes we call home. How do we make sense of our selves in place? How do we make places make sense themselves? TEL aims to answer these questions through the lens of Jewish histories across the diaspora. (The story of why this ch
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