Daily Archives: June 25, 2017
Jewish musicologist Richard Taruskin awarded Japanese ‘Nobel’
Musicologist Dr. Richard Taruskin has been awarded a 2017 Kyoto Prize, the Japanese Nobel.
Taruskin, a University of California, Berkeley professor emeritus, is the author of the six-volume The Oxford History of Western Music(2004). In...
How will Jews be remembered in Morocco when they are all gone?
I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. There I was, an Orthodox Israeli Jew, at a 500-year-old synagogue in Marrakesh, distributing food parcels to Muslims for Ramadan, representing the International...
Want a Jewish future? Forget emotion and look at the numbers
In early 2014, I joined a group of Jewish scholars and writers who gathered to ponder the startling statistics contained in the Pew Research Center’s recently published “A Portrait of Jewish Americans.” The intent...
The best deal ever
Everyone is talking about deal-making these days. The new president of the United States has been described as a deal-maker, and in fact, he wrote a book entitled The Art of the Deal. There...
New study shows Jewish spouses matter
One of the wisest things ever said about intermarriage came from former Atlantic sports columnist Jake Simpson: “No stat could have predicted … the wonder that was David Tyree’s helmet catch in Super Bowl...
New Book/CD to learn Yiddish in a fun way
If a language is the key to knowledge and to communicate and understand a culture, idioms are the key to their heart.
In these two books by Chaim Werdyger “YIDDISH IN 10 LESSONS” and “500...
Tripoli of Gold
1. The 50th anniversary of the liberation of Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, Judea & Samaria, and the Sinai Peninsula has been celebrated with great fanfare in recent weeks.
On a much smaller scale, the 50th...
Rugelach: A popular Jewish pastry Americans love
Jewish cuisine has evolved over many centuries. Much of #Jewish cuisine has been influenced by agriculture, tradition, and economic ebbs and flows. The many countries where Jewish communities have settled throughout the world play...
El asistante de Einstein “Ludwig Hopf”
El Australiano “Michael Hopf” tenia un avuelo ke kolavoro kon Einstein komo un fizisisto Aleman.
Michael nos konta su relasión kon Einstein en las investigaciones molekulares para ver si avian errores de matematika. Michael nasido...
Blagues antisémites, vente de Mein Kampf, nous avons assisté au bal des Quenelles de...
Ce samedi 17 juin, le public de Dieudonné s’est une nouvelle fois rassemblé pour assister à la cérémonie des quenelles d’or, qui vient récompenser la “subversion” d’anonymes et de personnalités proches de la fachosphère....