Israeli attractions: Inside the Baram Synagogue
Close to the Lebanese border in the upper Galilee is the Baram National Park, located on the Sasa-Bar’am road route 899, which is home to the Baram synagogue. Synagogue remains throughout the Galilee bear witness...
The Theo Bikel Yiddish-Into-English International Poetry Translation Contest
Call for entries:
Calling all poetry mavens! Do you have a favorite Yiddish poet or a poem that has yet to reach the English-speaking masses? Or have you come across a published translation of a...
October 13th, 1983: Ruby Myers, died in Mumbai at 76
India’s silent film star and movie producer, Sulochana, whose real name was Ruby Myers, died in Mumbai at 76 on this date in 1983. Discovered while working as a telephone operator, she became, in...
Platos a baza de sevoya
En esta rubrika, vos traemos esta vez, tres platos a baza de sevoya. En desparte de su rolo tan importante en el gizado sefaradi, los diversos djeneros de sevoya se komen tambien en sus...
Listen to ‘Despacito,’ Justin Bieber and Luis Fonsi’s megahit song, in Hebrew
(JTA) — Attention Jews who love to dance to Latin grooves: There is a Hebrew version of “Despacito,” the first mostly Spanish-language song to become a number one Billboard chart hit in 20 years.
“Despacito,”...
Sephardic singer Flory Jagoda keeps the music of her prewar bosnian childhood alive
The Hanukkah song “Ocho Kandelikas” (Eight Little Candles) is often referred to as a “traditional Sephardic song.” In fact, it was written in 1983 by Flory Jagoda, an 88-year-old Sephardic folk singer who still...
La istoria de los djudios de Trikala en Gresia
La sivdad de Trikala, en Gresia, ke es menos konosida por su komunidad djudia, es una de las mas antiguas de este paiz. Segun istoriadores eya fue fondada en el 4en siglo antes de...
The Sanitized World Of Virtual Art
The extent of applications of technology in our modern world seems to have no bounds. One particularly interesting group of applications deals with the ability to create within a virtual world of experience....
June 9, 2000: George Segal’s Public Art
Sculptor George Segal, whose 1979 piece, “Gay Liberation,” was the first public piece of art to commemorate the global struggle for equality, died on this date in 2000. “Gay Liberation” was commissioned by the...
Why many classic Christmas songs were written by Jewish composers
Immigrant artists — from Irving Berlin to Mel Tormé — penned odes to the mythic fantasies of the American middle class they desperately wanted to join.
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An outtake from "Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas" with...