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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Living Challenge of Anti-Fascism

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My late father, Charles Slucki (Sluggo), used to tell me that April 19, the start of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, is a heylige date, or holy day, his Yom Kippur; that even though he remembered...

‘Evening with Groucho’ brings back funnyman Marx

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SOLANA BEACH, California — A delighted North Coast Repertory Theater audience watched in amazement Tuesday night, as Frank Ferrante became funnyman Groucho Marx.  Before our very eyes, Ferrante painted on his mustache, donned rimmed...

Zionism meets feminism: Talking shop over a crisp glass of Chardonnay

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In a quintessential “only in Israel” moment, nearly 60 women (and a few dozen men) gathered on a breezy mid-April evening under the Nachlaot stars, sipping good Israeli wine and talking about the intersection...

Residents of Ben-Gurion’s Polish hometown of Plonsk march to honor Israel at 70

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Several hundred residents of Plonsk, a small town in the center of Poland that was the birthplace of David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of the State of Israel, took part in a procession...

SaveTheMusic presents: Bist a Goy, the new Yiddish song amazing Israelis

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Mgrr1Nkx0 GOY - The Eurovision 2018 Israeli entry "TOY" Super-jewish cover by Tehila - The Kosher Diva, in Yiddish! About Save the Music Save the Music is the exclusive resource and repository of Jewish Music and Videos including...

‘Everybody’s Birthright Experience’

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Monica Smolyar is like any other 21-year-old. She wants to get out and see the world. One of the places she always dreamed of visiting was Israel. She has a lot of family there, and...

An inside look at Mexico’s Jewish Arab citizens and their dual identities

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Jewish communities across the Diaspora are often incredibly diverse from one another, speaking different languages, eating different food, and practicing different traditions. However, there are a few unifying characteristics shared by all. In most...

Muestra Lingua

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Muestra lingua es la lingua de las madres ke kunan sus bebes, de las granmamis ke yevan a kaminar sus inyetizikos, tiene la golor de los dulses i de las salsas ke se aparejavan...

Israel’s population tops 8.8 million on 70th anniversary

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The population of Israel now numbers 8.842 million people, a tenfold increase since the state’s establishment, according to a special report published by the Central Bureau of Statistics for the Jewish state’s 70th Independence Day. According...

Actress persists, career now on rise

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SOLANA BEACH, California — While Professor Harold Hill may have been a part of Tanna Frederick’s formative years, the college graduate who left Iowa, was bound for glory in New York or Los Angeles where...