A Bizele Masheke, a ‘shikers’ (drunk’s) song with translation
די זינגערין און מוזיקאָלאָגין דזשיין פּעפּלער, וואָס איז שטענדיק אַ פֿאַרלאָזלעכער קוואַל פֿון טשיקאַווע ווידעאָס פֿון אַלטע לידער, האָט לעצטנס אַרויסגעלאָזט אַ רעקאָרדירונג פֿון ד׳׳ר הענעך סאַפּאָזשניקס זאַמלונגען, אין וועלכער שלמה שמולעוויטש זינגט זײַן...
The Departure of Moroccan Jews to Israel Bitterly Regretted
A recent documentary entitled: "Tinighir-Jerusalem, echoes from the Mellah" created incredible controversy within the Moroccan society. Pan-Arabs called the filmmaker and historian Kamal Hachkar an agent of Zionism 'amil sahyouni, whereas the Islamists, kind...
September 17, 1724: Glückel Of Hamelnm, Yiddish writer, died on this date
Glikl bas Judah Leib, or Glückel of Hameln, a diarist whose writings in Yiddish provided scholars with an intimate picture of German Jewish ghetto life in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, died on this...
September 17, 1944: Rita Rosani, Partisan Fighter, was killed fighting German soldiers
Rita Rosani, a 24-year-old teacher in a Jewish school in Trieste, Italy, was killed fighting German soldiers on this date in 1944, after surviving several military engagements in the Verona area. She hailed from...
Secret diary of Jewish teen killed by Nazis to publish after nearly 70 years...
The Holocaust diary of Polish Jewish teenager Renia Spiegel will finally be published after being sealed away in a New York bank vault for nearly 70 years, CNN reported.
Spiegel was born in 1924 and lived in...
Alanna and Nir: Winners of summer JWed contest
JWed announced the winning couple of its free trip to Israel contest in honor of its 3,300th match: Nir and Alanna Ben-David.
Here is part of their story, which was selected by a panel of judges:
Years after...
Reform launches a political war in time for the High Holidays
It turns out that the Jewish community didn’t need to wait until the synagogues were packed for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in order to gauge the amount of political rhetoric that American rabbis...
The Intercultural Fusion and Conflation of Islam and Judaism in Morocco
Morocco is one of the most culturally rich countries in the world due to its extensive history; one major reason for its rich cultural heritage is due to the fact that numerous empires controlled...
Uniting around a Big Judaism
When you feel under attack, you’re not inclined to think big. You’re more consumed with immediate threats.
The Jewish world these days is feeling under attack. Whether it’s the rise of anti-Semitism on all sides,...
#ShowUpForShabbat to recall Pittsburgh shooting victims, one year later
An initiative by the American Jewish Committee invites people of all faiths to join Jews in synagogues for Shabbat services on Oct. 25-26 as a show of solidarity timed to the first anniversary of...