The Duality of Jewish Time
Time plays an enormous role in Judaism. The first thing that God declared holy was a day — Shabbat — at the conclusion of creation. The first mitzvah given to the Jewish people as a...
Living in the present while building for a future
An open road on a beautiful day, with your kids in the back seat, maybe even a picnic lunch; what could be more perfect?
I will always wonder what Tali Hatuel, eight months pregnant, with...
Lag Baomer
Saludes a todos los oyentes de la emisyon Muestra lingua, la emisyon en djudeo-espanyol fundada por el profesor Haïm-Vidal Sephiha i prezentada agora por vuestro servidor Edmond Cohen, kon Philippe en la kabina.
Por empesar,...
NBA Great Ray Allen Is on a Mission to Educate Everybody About the Holocaust
Last December, retired NBA champion Ray Allen was named a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by then-President Barack Obama. Allen said he was honored to be named to the organization’s board...
Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places: Jewish Singer Sings “Der Rebbe Elimelech” on Mongolian TV
We thought we'd seen it all when we posted videos of Hava Nagila on a Thailand TV show and Abanibi on a Spanish TV show.
But this week we came across a video of the...
Christianisme Évités En Judéo-Espagnol
En 1981 j’éditais mon article
« Christianismes en judéo-espagnol (calque et vernaculaire) », in The International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 30 (81), pp.73 à 88.
Depuis lors, j’ai poursuivi mes recherches et constate qu’en judéo-espagnol...
Viral pontiff: Francis dances with Hasidic Jews at the Vatican
It’s rare to see Pope Francis bopping behind the walls of the Apostolic Palace.
Actually, if anyone has ever seen any pope dancing they’ve never said anything, nor filmed it and put it on YouTube.
Yet...
National Museum of American Jewish History show about 1917 has violence, revolution, refugees
The United States enters a war overseas, and people are dying and fleeing their besieged lands.
Unrest ripples across Russia. Tensions brew in the Middle East.
Immigrants find themselves unwanted in America, targets of surveillance, arrest,...
Festival celebrates Jewish food culture with community
Lieba Cohen of Hagerstown, and her husband Jerry, can be found helping out every year during the Jewish Food Festival hosted by Congregation B’nai Abraham in downtown Hagerstown.
She is usually helping with the bakery...
Israël célèbre le 69ème anniversaire de la création de l’Etat d’Israël
Comme chaque année et ceci depuis des décennies, nous venons nous réjouir aux côtés du peuple Juif, dans Sa célébration de l’évènement, que nous considérons comme le plus important du monde, « Le retour...