Onward Israel merges with Birthright as part of effort to appeal to new audiences
Two organizations that provide Israel experiences for Jewish young adults, Birthright Israel and Onward Israel, are announcing their merger this week with the goal of strengthening the relationship between Diaspora Jews worldwide and the...
Australian wins ORT Teacher of the Year Award
A ‘sparkly, positive’ teacher at Singapore’s leading Jewish school has collected a global award for her dedication and commitment to her students and colleagues during the past year.
Maire Clapham, a primary teacher at the...
Shifting gears: Ultra-Orthodox woman turns professional cyclist
Until just two years ago, now-professional cyclist Goldie Gelhar had not done any sports in her life. Born and raised in the haredi city of Bnei Brak, she took a single swimming lesson as a child,...
March 5, 1968: Syd Nathan’s “Race Records”
Record producer Syd Nathan, a high school drop-out who founded King Records in Cincinnati, died at 63 on this date in 1968. King Records released James Brown’s first single, “Please, Please”, as well as...
David Mermelstein, Holocaust survivor who fought Nazi-era insurance companies, dies at 92
David Mermelstein, a survivor of Auschwitz who devoted much of his life to helping fellow survivors and educating children about the Holocaust, died July 6 in Miami at the age of 92.
Mermelstein regularly spoke...
Remembering Bob Saget, Millennials’ embarrassing, bawdy, beloved Jewish dad
Children of the ‘90s discovered Bob Saget in phases – he was one of the rare comedy acts that aged with you, while never quite maturing.
The comedian, who was found dead in a Florida...
Sharon Katz-Music and Mitzvahs
It is unusual when a person combines great talent with compassion for others, but from personal and perhaps biased experience, I can attest that South African musician, Sharon Katz, has both in spades.
Music can...
May 13,1916: The great Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem died
Solomon Naumovich (Sholom Nohumovich) Rabinovich (Russian: Соломо́н Нау́мович (Шо́лом Но́хумович) Рабино́вич) was born in 1859 in Pereiaslav and grew up in the nearby shtetl (small town with a large Jewish population) of Voronkiv, in...
“Shtisel” Opens Up New Possibilities For the Yiddish Theater Read more: http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/215629/shtisel-opens-up-new-possibilities-for-the-yiddish/#ixzz5s51XqJdq
די אומגעריכטע הצלחה פֿון „פֿידלער אויפֿן דאַך אויף ייִדיש‟ האָט, סוף־כּל־סוף, געוויזן דער וועלט אַז דער טעאַטער־עולם איז גרייט און וויליק צו זען אַ מיוזיקל וווּ דער דיאַלאָג און די לידער זענען אין גאַנצן...
April 30, 1985: Mickey Katz, artist and musician whose Yiddish parody “Home on the...
“Novelty” musician Mickey Katz, who specialized in Jewish parodies of American classics (such as “Haym afn Range” and “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Katzkills”), died at 75 in Los Angeles on this date in 1985. Katz...