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Daily Archives: May 21, 2019

Yiddish Flavors of Love: A Musical Celebration

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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

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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

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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 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with a billboard of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the background. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Iran’s proxy war is the real problem

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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...
Rev. Al Sharpton speaking at the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center conference in Washington, D.C. on May 20, 2019. Credit: RAC.

Sharpton notes his ‘cheap’ rhetoric towards Jews during 1991 Crown Heights riots

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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...
Smoke trails rise as a rocket is launched from the southern Gaza Strip towards Israel on May 4, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Report: Israel and Hamas agree on six-month ceasefire

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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...
Chabad of Poway, Calif. Credit: Chabad of Poway.

In wake of Poway, bipartisan legislation introduced to secure religious institutions

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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...
View of the Yehudit Bridge and the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv on Feb. 17, 2019. Photo by Adam Shuldman/Flash90.

Reuters casts Tel Aviv pre-1948 as Palestinian Arab city of Tel Ar-Rabeea’

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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...
The International Tracing Service in Germany. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

German archive uploads millions of documents related to Holocaust victims

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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...
In clinical trials, two-thirds of patients got significant pain relief with Theranica’s Neriva Migra patch. Photo: Israel21c.

Can Israeli company’s electronic patch reduce migraine pain?

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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...