Daily Archives: May 26, 2017
National Yiddish theatre folksbiene at the museum of Jewish heritage
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
presents a number of unique shows this Spring and Summer as part of our 102nd consecutive season.
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A musical celebrating the immigrant experience that shaped America.
“ Amerike -...
Tucson teens, local survivor join defiant ‘March of the Living’
t takes a special kind of courage to revisit your worst memories. When Holocaust survivor Pawel Lichter of Tucson accompanied a group of Jewish teens on the 29th annual March of the Living, April...
Chicago launching new network, resource for Jewish professionals
A new initiative supporting the individual career growth of local Jewish professionals and the collective growth of Chicago's Jewish community will launch in Chicago next month.
JPRO Chicago will serve as a central resource for...
This Jewish holiday is about way more than cheesecake
When the sun sets next Tuesday, the Jewish holiday Shavuot will officially begin and continue until sundown on Wednesday, exactly 50 days since the first Passover seder.
If you only know one thing about Shavuot,...
Best picture: prize-winning Israeli student film “Roads” sets Guinness World Record
When Israeli filmmaker Lior Geller was a Tel Aviv University film student shooting a gritty 20-minute crime-drama called Roads in 2007, he never thought his short film would one day hold a Guinness World Record title.
Now, exactly ten years later, Roads has...
Jared Kushner subject of FBI interest in Russia case
FBI agents investigating ties between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia reportedly are focused on meetings that Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, had with Russian figures.
The Washington Post and NBC each reported late Thursday that...
Democrats, Jewish groups join Trump in protesting Palestinian terror payments
Prominent Democrats and major U.S. Jewish organizations are joining President Donald Trump in calling on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to stop making payments to imprisoned terrorists and their families.
Trump raised the issued during his...
Trump’s titanic foreign-policy shift
(The Washington Post) - This newspaper’s legendary former publisher, Philip Graham, famously described journalism as the business of writing the “first rough draft of history.” This week, as President Donald Trump gave a historic...
The Reality of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, kingpin of the Arab League, is still at war with Israel.
The Arab League declared war to decimate the nascent Jewish state in 1948. On May 15, 1948, on the very day that...
Operation Paperclip, The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America, by Annie...
“As comprehensive as it is critical, this latest exposé from Jacobsen is perhaps her most important work to date….Jacobsen persuasively shows that it in fact happened and aptly frames the dilemma….Rife with hypocrisy, lies,...