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Noa Kirel holds a press conference in Tel Aviv about her representing Israel in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, Aug. 10, 2022. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Israel’s 2023 Eurovision song entry: ‘Unicorn’

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Israel’s entry for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest is called “Unicorn” and will be released in full next month, the Kan public broadcaster announced on Tuesday. The song will be performed at this year’s contest in Liverpool...

The Story Behind “Fiddler” – A FREE Online Course

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Harvard Professor Ruth Wisse teaches Sholem Aleichem's Tevye the Dairyman Discover Tevye—the most well-known Jew in fiction—in a whole new light. Dive into the rich, complex, and wonderfully entertaining world of Yiddish literature. ...
Co=-curator Debby Kline with Wayne Martin Belger camera

Beyond the Age of Reason: Art to inspire, raise questions, and perhaps anger

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The contemporary art exhibit, “Beyond the Age of Reason,” curated by Larry and Debby Kline, is nearing the end of its run at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park.  If you want...

Steven Spielberg, Una legenda sinematografika

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Todos los ke aman el cinema tienen sus aktores i aktrisas preferidos, los filmos ke amaron lo mas, las salas de sinema ke les gustan irsen ets. Ma no todos konosen ken estan detras...
Jesse Bogner facilitates the “Connection Workshop” with the Destination Israel program in Tel Aviv in June 2016. Credit: Daria Geller.

Emerging author Jesse Bogner’s ‘spiritual action writing’ covers everything from Kabbalah to Trump

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What’s at the intersection of Judaism, politics and spirituality? It’s a literary niche being carved out by up-and-coming writer Jesse Bogner, a student of leading international authority on Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) Michael Laitman. Bogner left New York...

Memories unearthed from the Lodz Ghetto

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An exhibit of unearthed photographs is offering a heartbreaking glimpse into an unforgivable part of our past. With Chip Reid, we uncover it again: Krysia Rosenstein speaks of a childhood of nightmares: "And they were...

How we choose the books we read

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We come to the books we read from many directions. It could be newspaper and magazine reviews, suggestions from trusted friends, NPR reviews, looking at bookstore recent arrivals, ‘the book club is now reading,’...

Hollywood’s oldest working actress Connie Sawyer dies at 105

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Connie Sawyer, Hollywood’s oldest working actress, died at 105 on Monday at a retirement home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. The actress starred in hundreds of roles on television and film throughout her career, from “A Hole...

“Makhts Of!”, Yiddish Purim Song performed by The Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkXWTUFePNE Traditional Yiddish Purim song Choral arrangement: Binyumen Schaechter (2018) Funded by a grant from the Marinus and Minna B. Koster Foundation Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC דער ייִדישער פֿילהאַרמאָנישער פֿאָלקסכאָר Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor בנימין שעכטער, דיריגענט Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejppc Website: http://www.TheJPPC.org​ Contact: information@TheJPPC.org Filmed...

Chabad rabbi-rapper reaches top of the charts in Israel with ‘Red and Yellow’

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Arap artist who turned around his hard-partying lifestyle after a near-death experience when he was a teenager and became a rabbi now sees surging success with his newest single. Rabbi Moshe Reuven Sheradsky, 31, has hit the...