Jewish World

If you get to Kaliningrad, Russia — formerly Königsberg, East Prussia — you can now follow a Jewish heritage itinerary in the city. Just a year ago, exactly 80 years after the grandiose New Synagogue...

Kippalive - Al HaNisim כיפה-לייב על הניסים https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7MXDlPg_LI

Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC דער ייִדישער פֿילהאַרמאָנישער פֿאָלקסכאָר Binyumen Schaechter, conductor בנימין שעכטער, דיריגענט https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anhT8GcQj9o Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejppc Website: http://www.TheJPPC.org Contact: information@TheJPPC.org Filmed live in performance October 14, 2018 • Merkin Concert Hall, NYC as part of the encore concert of "To Everything There...

Former Knesset member Geulah Cohen, an iconic pre-state underground fighter, founder of the Tehiya Party, 2003 Israel Prize laureate and the mother of Likud Minister Tzachi Hanegbi, died on Wednesday night. She was 93...

22 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev found himself in a situation he never imagined he’d be in: broke. This was the man who had led a world superpower, signed groundbreaking nuclear arms control agreements, and initiated...

Some messages are simply too important to ignore. One such message, I believe, emerges from two words in the Talmud’s short discussion of the Hanukkah festival. While overwhelmingly vital and powerful, however, this communication...

And all of a sudden, Markish interrupted in his bass voice that in moments of passion became a heroic tenor: “We shall host a literary event that will makethe whole of Warsaw tremble. On...

We want to be sure everyone has a chance to enjoy the full richness of the holiday, and we don't just mean the delicious fried richness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnODSttLSOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anhT8GcQj9o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPyFJb_0FWo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYZqH2vkaaU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG1yeSYhKII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-77UDIBNgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkIc1adgD_M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do3QM-Y7UeM

Yiddish poem: I. L. Peretz (1852-1915) Original music: Beethoven's 9th Symphony Choral adaptation: Binyumen Schaechter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF7F1K5m5A4 Filmed live in performance November 1, 2015 • Merkin Concert Hall, NYC Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus Binyumen Schaechter, conductor Shinae Kim, pianist Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejppc Website: http://www.TheJPPC.org Contact: information@TheJPPC.org

The *beautiful* Yiddish Chanukah song "Borekh ate" ("Blessed Art Thou") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPyFJb_0FWo Performed by the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor And if you haven't yet seen the following here's the JPPC performing the *playful* Yiddish Chanukah...