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Jan 30, 2019, 8:11 AM

Not Showing at Mexico’s Jewish Film Festival

If you are in Mexico this week, you may want to attend El 16º Festival Internacional de Cine Judío en México (The 16th International Jewish Film Festival in Mexico). But if you do, you won’t be seeing a film...

Dec 1, 2018, 2:50 PM

A Bridge to the Bronx

Subway Sax Man by Bertram Lewis.

Anything can happen now that we’ve slid over this bridge, I thought, anything at all. — The Great Gatsby It has been six months since I affixed a mezuzah to the doorpost of my Harlem apartment. Though I am not religious, that...

Nov 20, 2018, 8:35 PM

A Chosen Rail Line?

In a city where nothing ever seems to come easy, the arrival of Jerusalem’s long-delayed light-rail Red Line was seen by some as nothing short of a miracle. At many points over the 10-plus years of construction, it looked...

Nov 19, 2018, 9:32 PM

If you will it, it is no dream

If you will it, is no dream.
Herzl Street at Pitkin Avenue, Brownsville

Every trip to New York for me is a return to the old country. Even in California, I live in the sixth borough; a bicoastal netherworld that feels like the real thing though I am 3,000 miles away on...

Nov 19, 2018, 8:24 AM

México: El Shul de Jesús María

During a visit to Mexico City, a friend suggested I visit La Sinogoga Justo Sierra in La Merced, a neighborhood not far from the Zócalo and Catedral de México. La Merced is an old area of the city where most Mexican...

Nov 15, 2018, 10:50 PM

Mass Transit: Is it Good for the Jews?

Why am I reposting a piece I wrote for the Jewish Journal back in 2010? Los Angeles was a different place back then. This was before the opening of the Expo Line to Santa Monica and passage of Measure...

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Joel Epstein is a New York-based communications strategist and writer focused on public transit and other urban issues.

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