Fayerlesher – mayzalakh (Firemen Mouse), song based on “Ratones Bombero”, by Cri Cri
A beautiful children’s song performed in Yiddish by Bobe Adina.
Firemen Mouse - Valiant firemen-mouse that run to help out and save a mouse-girl as she jumps from the fire. They do not get distracted...
Mandy Patinkin Headlines San Diego’s ‘JFest’ June 4
Broadway’s master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Adam Ben-David on piano, will bring his newest theatre concert Mandy Patinkin in Concert: BEING ALIVE, to Balboa Theatre on Tuesday, June 4 at 7:30 p.m. This powerful...
Art meets science: Is that a field of flowers or the brain of a...
An exhibit by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa exemplifies that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
“LABSCAPES: Views Through the Microscope” showcases the work of renowned researchers at Israel’s leading institute...
The traveling Holocaust exhibit that’s revolutionizing Holocaust education
The sight of a Holocaust-era replica cattle car parked on a typically nondescript main city street would cause even the most absent-minded drivers and pedestrians to do a double take. If the structure’s image...
New musical ‘Fury and Elysium’ showcases women in pre-war Berlin
One of Stephanie Martin’s favorite parts of the musical “Fury and Elysium,” whose script she penned, is when the lover of a Socialist activist character named Rosa Luxemburg tells her that she is “too...
Prof. Jack Jacobs discusses “Jews and the Left”
JEWS AND THE LEFT RECONSIDERED
Thursday, June 22 | 7:00pm
Admission: Free
Lecture and Book Launch
In the last decades of the 19th century, and the first decades of the 20th, Jews held highly visible positions in a...
Medicine and design exhibit opens at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem
An inaugural exhibition at the Azrieli Gallery on Hanevi’im Street in Jerusalem (also known as “Hospitals Street”) at Hadassah Academic College’s new Helmsley Building opened its first-ever exhibit on medicine, designers and cultural implications,...
Frances Perkins, Nation’s First ‘Madam Secretary’ Tried to Help European Jewish Refugees
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany by Rebecca Brenner Graham; New York: Citadel Press Books imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp.; © 2025; ISBN 9780806-543178; 280 pages...
Jewish Stories Are Everywhere — Especially in Books
It’s my joy to review for this publication many current books — especially memoirs, biographies, and novels — but occasionally when there are none left on the pile to review, I have the opportunity...
One-of-a-Kind Biography about Author of ‘All-of-a-Kind Family’ Books
When the Association of Jewish Libraries evaluates a book with Jewish content that it finds particularly good, it awards the author its Sydney Taylor Book Award after the author of the All-of-a-Kind series of books that...