Daily Archives: April 29, 2020

A Jewish family in Houston is turning kipahs into face masks for their town’s homeless population to wear during the coronavirus pandemic. The Jason family has already collected nearly 700 from donations and has dubbed their campaign “Kippahs to...

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said on Tuesday that he hopes Blue and White leaders Benny Gantz and Gabi Ashkenazi—Israel’s new defense minister and foreign minister, respectively—will persuade Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to...

One of the main authors of the Trump Mideast peace plan is appealing to Palestinian Arab leaders to “count to 10” before rejecting the plan. Despite spending years observing Palestinians and negotiating with Palestinian...

Max Wagenberg had enough of coronavirus. According to his mother, Helene Richter, the 21-year-old minimally verbal Manhattan resident with autism, searched for and found an “escape strategy” from the pandemic. “Last night, he came...

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in Canada hit a record high in 2019 for a fourth consecutive year, according to an audit published on Monday. The 2019 Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents by B’nai Brith Canada’s advocacy arm, the...

Featuring new and old songs of hope and despair in Yiddish and English. The Detroit-born and Berlin-based Kahn has toured the world as a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, translator, and teacher. He originated the role of Pertshik...

This song by Herman Yablokoff tells the story of an orphan cigarette vendor who stands in a corner selling "Papirosn" on a cold afternoon in the rain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UYQ0C2cG88&feature=youtu.be PAPIROSN פאפיעראסן A kalte nakht, a nebldike finster umetum sheyt a...

One of the worst mining disasters in U.S. history, at a coal mine owned by the Guggenheim family in Eccles, West Virginia, was reported by the New York Times on this date in 1914. Between 183...