Daily Archives: May 21, 2019
Yiddish Flavors of Love: A Musical Celebration
Tickets going fast!
Sunday, June 16, 2019
3:00 p.m.
YIDDISH FLAVORS OF LOVE:
A MUSICAL CELEBRATION
performed by
The Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC
Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor
Seth Weinstein, Pianist
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS PROVIDED
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York...
An Unexpected Side to Yiddish Theater
Mitzi Manna, an international star of the Yiddish stage, has appeared in basements everywhere from Berlin and Bucharest to the Bronx and back. She is thrilled to at last be telling her tale for...
The NY Cantors perform live at SummerStage
In Association with Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage,
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
presents.
The New York Cantors (as seen on PBS)
Yaakov (Yanky) Lemmer, Azi Schwartz, and...
Iran’s proxy war is the real problem
Sunday night’s landing of a Katyusha rocket less than half a mile from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was not merely the latest provocation on the part of Tehran in its battle of wills...
Sharpton notes his ‘cheap’ rhetoric towards Jews during 1991 Crown Heights riots
Rev. Al Sharpton recalled on Monday that the widow of civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took him to task for his “cheap” rhetoric behind the 1991 riots in the Crown Heights neighborhood...
Report: Israel and Hamas agree on six-month ceasefire
Israel and the terrorist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, have reportedly agreed to a six-month ceasefire in the aftermath of the latter launching hundreds of rockets earlier this month into the Jewish...
In wake of Poway, bipartisan legislation introduced to secure religious institutions
Bipartisan legislation was introduced in Congress on Friday to provide funding to religious institutions, including synagogues, to protect attendees from potential attacks.
Introduced by U.S. Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.), the Protecting...
Reuters casts Tel Aviv pre-1948 as Palestinian Arab city of Tel Ar-Rabeea’
In an article last week about refugees in the Gaza Strip yearning to return to their family homes, now located in Israel, Reuters misrepresented Tel Aviv as an Arab city prior to 1948.
In the...
German archive uploads millions of documents related to Holocaust victims
Germany’s Holocaust archive has uploaded more than 13 million documents “from Nazi concentration camps, including prisoner cards and death notices, to help Holocaust researchers and others investigate the fate of victims,” reported the Associated Press on...
Can Israeli company’s electronic patch reduce migraine pain?
It looks like a high-tech version of the nicotine patch, but Theranica Bio-Electronics’ wearable device has a different purpose: to knock out migraines … at least temporarily.
Inside Theranica’s Neriva Migra patch are tiny electrodes...