El Doktor Angel Pulido Fernandez i los espanyoles sin patria
Angel Pulido nasio en 1852 en Madrid en una famiya de kondisyon muy modesta, su padre i madre syendo venidos en Madrid desde Asturias para avrir una botikita de vinos en la kaye de...
The Jewish-American Writer Who Transformed U.S.-Mexico Relations
The Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles is currently highlighting the life and writing of Anita Brenner, a Mexican-born, American Jewish writer. Brenner was born in 1905 in Aguascalientes, and spent the majority of her...
Four violin pieces by Zina Schiff in celebration of Jerusalem Day
Yom Yerushalayim, marking the unification of the City of Jerusalem at the end of the Six Day War, will be commemorated this Friday, May 22. Thus, I am writing this column about my sister,...
Vera Lynn, the voice of resistance against the Nazis, dies
Vera Lynn, who sang the songs that touched the hearts and lifted the spirits of Britons from the bomb-blitzed streets of London and Coventry to the sands of North Africa and the jungles of...
Israeli wheat exhibit stirs up big emotions in Tokyo
Who would have thought an exhibit about wheat could be so emotional?
An Israeli installation titled “Goren” won first prize—the Big Emotions Award—as part of the Jerusalem Design Week delegation at Design Art Tokyo 2019 in October.
Visitors to the...
Large archive of Moscow State Yiddish Theater now online
דער „בלאַוואַטניק־אַרכיוו“ האָט לעצטנס געשטעלט אויף דער אינטערנעץ הונדערטער בילדער פֿון חפֿצים פֿאַרבונדן מיט דער געשיכטע פֿונעם מאָסקווער ייִדישן מלוכה־טעטאַער („גאָסעט“). די אַרטיפֿאַקטן, וואָס נעמען אַרײַן הונדערטער פֿאָטאָגראַפֿיעס, סצענאַרן, בראָשורן, צייכענונגען און אַפֿישן, ווי אויך ביכער...
Netflix Begins Production on Part-Yiddish Series ‘Unorthodox’
'Deutschland 83' Actress Maria Schrader Set to Direct
ROBERT MITCHELL
Netflix has announced the start of production on its Yiddish- and English-language German series “Unorthodox,” which is shooting in Berlin. The streaming giant is partnering with “Deutschland...
New Jerusalem exhibit demonstrates how plastic is ‘suffocating Earth’
“Warning: Plastic packets may be dangerous. Full stop.”
This is the typical warning label on those small plastic packets of silica gel that are tossed into food packaging, shoe boxes, electronics wrapping and more. Not...
Druze tourism in Israel
The Druze are a proud and ancient people and one of Israel's main minority communities. The Druze communities share with tourists from Israel and the rest of the world their ancient traditions and way...
November 1st,1880: Yiddish Writer Sholem Asch was born
Sholem Asch, the most internationally known and widely translated writer of Yiddish novels, plays, and stories, was born in Poland on this date in 1880. His 1907 drama, God of Vengeance, which focused on religious...