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Will Electing This Little-Known Jewish Democrat Stop Trump?
On the day before the first anniversary of Barack Obama’s first inauguration as president, voters in Massachusetts went to the polls in a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by the death...
Bear Mitzvah in Meshugahlan
A yellow teddy bear hangs from the ceiling. With a patterned parachute attached to its tiny body, it hangs, midflight, amid a cacophony of other creatures like a stuffed lion, a stuffed moose, a...
Is Evidence from a War-Crimes Tribunal Art?
Henryk Ross testified at the Eichmann trial. His qualification for that dubious honor was to have been one of the few thousand souls to survive the Lodz ghetto, where more than 200,000 Polish Jews...
Tayere leyeners, dear readers,
In March we had some great conversations and maybe just a kleyn bisele of Purim fun. It seems that you, our readers, enjoyed these things as well: this month we reached 2,000 "likes" on...
Reimagine Passover: National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
Join NYTF, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and The Workmen's Circle for a fresh new take on the traditional Seder!
Matzapalooza!
Sunday April 2, 10 A.M. to 1 P.M.
at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Passover is...
How Did A Yiddish Opera Wind Up In Cuba Of All Places?
You may have heard that the Yiddish-Cuban opera “Hatuey: Memory of Fire,” made its way to Havana in early March. Despite issues with a finicky old sound system, the premiere was a huge success...
Neo-Nazi Church Burns To The Ground In North Dakota
A 108-year-old church recently bought by white nationalist Craig Cobb burned to the ground Wednesday in the rural town of Nome in North Dakota, the Bismarck Tribune reported.
Cobb bought the structure in February and...
AIPAC, Day 1: One Very Big Room
Vice President Mike Pence violated a longstanding AIPAC norm during his headlining speech at a packed Verizon Center on Sunday night, but it’s unclear how many delegates even noticed or cared. During the front...
How the Granddaughter of a Borscht Belt Waiter Became Roberta Peters, Opera Star
he enduring career of the American Jewish soprano Roberta Peters, who died on January 18 at age 86, shows that while not absolutely necessary, it helped if an opera singer’s grandfather was headwaiter at...
What Prompted the Electronic Devices Ban
On the afternoon of March 20, Royal Jordanian Airlines announced on Twitter that effective March 21, it would ban all electronic items from passenger cabins of its aircraft traveling directly to and from the...