Jewish Life Television/JLTV to Premiere “Air Land & Sea” in Porto, Portugal
Jewish Life Television/JLTV proudly announces the premiere of Air Land & Sea in Porto, Portugal. Hosted by Brad Pomerance, this episode from JLTV’s global travel series uncovers the story of the Jewish people in...
Jewish Life Television Announces High Holidays Programming for 2020
September 16, 2020 (Los Angeles, CA): During these very difficult times, Jewish Life Television, North America’s premiere 24-7 Jewish-themed television network, is humbled to have the opportunity to offer extensive High Holiday programming to...
Tale of a Jewish girl hidden during the Shoah
Author Bart Van Es knew about Lien de Jong, the Jewish girl who was provided a home and a new identity with his grandparents during the time the Nazis occupied Holland. However, after such...
Fun Yener Zayt Shvel: Geklibene Artiklen fun Sheva Tsuker
געקליבענע אַרטיקלען פֿונעם זשורנאַל אויפֿן שוועל
פֿון שבֿע צוקער
On the Other Side of the Threshold
Selected Articles from the Magazine Afn Shvel
by Sheva Zucker
"The essays gathered in this volume convey their author’s extraordinary energy and passionate commitment to...
“Der Bund in Bilder, 1957-1897” (The Bund in images, 1957-1897), download it and read...
Jewish labor organizing wasn’t limited to the United States. In 1897, organizers meeting in Minsk founded the Jewish Labor Bund to champion the rights of Jewish workers in Russia and Poland. The movement spread...
‘Crip Camp’ Espouses Jewish Values
I recently watched the documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution on Netlix. It begins in 1971 at Camp Jened, a summer camp in the Catskills for people with disabilities such as blindness, spina bifida, cerebral palsy,...
Spontaneous Lines: The Art of Rita Blitt
The bountiful new book, Rita Blitt: Around and Round (Tra Publishing, 2020), looks back at the long and prolific career of this notable American artist. If Blitt’s work is about anything then it is about the...
When hippies invented their own Judaism
Take yourself back to the 1960s and 1970s when Jewish hippies envisioned creating their own brand of Judaism. Kosher food mixed with marijuana. Come as you are davening with cushions in a circle, instead...
New Yiddish Rep: a live evening of readings and performances
Join us for a live evening of readings and performances.
The title for our upcoming zoom live stream is taken from one of the pieces that will be featured during this Wednesday's event. Written by...
Ellis Island and the name ‘Kaputnik’
Visiting my family in this Contra County town, I happened across a book from the PJ Library titled Mrs. Kaputnik’s Pool Hall and Matzo Ball Emporium by Rona Arato. Now, I’m one of those fellows who...