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Music of Shabbat to Soothe the Troubled Heart

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If music can soothe the troubled heart, the music of Shabbat may be particularly effective with its prayer chants for peace, for healing, and for the departed. The next Treasures from the Music Collection of...

Film in Chattanooga Jewish screening refers to ‘Occupied West Bank’

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The 16th annual Chattanooga Jewish Film Series, hosted by the Jewish Federation in the southeastern Tennessee city, began on Wednesday evening. Titles featured include the 1941 Holocaust escape drama “Farewell Mr. Haffman,” the musical drama “Love Gets...

History of Conflict with Israel Tilts Toward the Palestinians

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Although this book claims to be an objective history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it clearly is a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel narrative. The author, Michael Scott-Baumann, a resident of Cheltenham, England, had volunteered for a group calling...

Couple’s Post-Holocaust Reunification Story Has Emotional Impact

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In Kaunas, Lithuania, a city also known as Kovno, David and Dora Ruskin married in 1938.  They had a daughter, Rose Miriam, in 1939, and came under Nazi German occupation in 1941.  After three...

A Kibbutznik Who Did Everything Well

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Chicken Man by Michelle Edwards; Montgomery, Alabama: NewSouth Books © 2008, ISBN 9781588-382375; 26 pages; $9.79 on Amazon. SAN DIEGO – For its October selection for 4-year-old children, PJ Library has brought back an oldie but a...
From her role as the little girl with the big voice in the 1988 film “Beaches” to her star turns on TV shows “Blossom” and “The Big Bang Theory,” Mayim Bialik has brought joy to millions with her comedic and musical gifts. Credit: Storm Santos.

New ‘Blossom’ reboot to shift show from sitcom to drama

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Fans concerned about the fate of Mayim Bialik after her writers-strike-inspired departure from hosting the quiz show “Celebrity Jeopardy!” need not worry: In development is a new project returning to the cast of “Blossom,” the 1990s...
Journalist and author Edward Jay Epstein speaking about his book, “How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, The Man and the Theft,” Feb. 1, 2017. Credit: New America via Wikimedia Commons.

Investigative reporting ‘almost impossible’ in modern work culture, journalist Edward Jay Epstein says

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Investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein has spent time over the decades with spies, international criminals, globe-trotting billionaires and world leaders, including former President Richard Nixon and U.S. statesman Henry Kissinger. He has penned more...

The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19

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Between 1918 and 1921 an estimated 100,000 Jewish people were killed, maimed or tortured in pogroms in Ukraine. Hundreds of Jewish communities were burned to the ground and hundreds of thousands of people were...

Viewers Experience World of Deaf in ‘Since August’

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Now viewable on YouTube and other Internet platforms, Since August is a groundbreaking film in which most of the sparse dialogue is in American Sign Language with some English-language captioning. It takes hearing people into the...

Book Presents 21 Jewish Role Models for Grade School Girls

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She’s a Mensch: Jewish Women Who Rocked the World by Rachelle Burk and Alana Barouch, with illustrations by Arielle Trent; Seattle, Washington: Intergalactic Afikoman; © 2023; ISBN 9781951-365110; 56 pages; $19.99. Twenty-one Jewish women whose accomplishments...