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New Online Yiddish Dictionary for the New Year! English/Yidish Verterbukh Onlayn

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The groundbreaking online dictionary you have been “sitting on shpilkes” for has finally arrived! The League for Yiddish is thrilled to bring you the "Comprehensive ONLINE English-Yiddish Dictionary", Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath & Paul Glasser, co-editors-in-chief based...
A promotional photo for "Fauda" on Netflix. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

New trailer released for next season of ‘Fauda’ set in Gaza

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trailer for the third season of the hit Israeli TV series “Fauda” was released on Sunday. While the show’s last two seasons took place primarily in the West Bank, the third season, which was partly...

Jews and chocolate: 500 years of sweetness

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Sephardic Jews who were expelled in the late 15th century  from Portugal and Spain learned about cocoa and the production of chocolate from the indigenous peoples of Central and South America and the Caribbean. Keeping...
Artist Marc Bennett with his mosaic illustrating the history of the Star of David

Traveling Israel exhibit opens in Florida

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On one side of the seating area on Sunday, Dec. 8, was a documented German cattle car used to transport Jews from Warsaw to their death in Treblinka.  On the opposite side was a...

“The Seasonal Jewish Kitchen: A Fresh Take on Tradition”, by Amelia Saltsman

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Here, at last, is a fresh, new way to think about Jewish food. In The Seasonal Jewish Kitchen, Amelia Saltsman takes us far beyond deli meats and kugel to a world of diverse flavors...

‘Hold These Truths’: A story we need to hear

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“The nail that sticks out is the one that gets hit.” This is a common Japanese proverb. Parents use it to teach kids to conform and respect authority, not to stand out or make waves....

‘The Last Five Years’ pulls heart strings

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When most people think of musical theatre, they think of large casts with full orchestras, glitzy dance numbers and a love story with a happy ending. That is not this story. Jason Robert Brown’s The...
From left, Gunnar Biggs, bass; Elizabeth Schwartz, vocals; Yale Strom, violin, and Robin henkel, dobro guitar.

‘Bluish’ concert features Jews and African-Americans

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From the creative muse of Yale Strom comes another concert with the intriguing title, “BLUEISH: JEWS AND THE BLUES.” The multi-talented Strom, scholar-in-residence at SDSU’s Judaic Studies Department, has brought concerts combining his klezmer forces...

Time travel fiction dramatizes first Chanukah

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Ah, the joys of time travel!  San Diego author Marcia Berneger, a retired teacher, uses this device to imaginatively retell the story of the first Chanukah in A Dreidel in Time, a chapter book for children between the...
John Demjanjuk in Israel's Supreme Court in Jerusalem. Photo by Flash 90.

Upcoming Netflix docuseries focuses on story of Nazi guard John Demjanjuk

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A new Netflix docuseries centers on the story of a retired Ukrainian-American autoworker in Cleveland who was accused of being “Ivan the Terrible,” one of the Holocaust’s most notorious SS guards. In the 1980s, a...