Monthly Archives: April 2020
Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada reach record high for fourth year in a row
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...
Daniel Kahn presents “Yiddish Blues in Berlin”
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...
“Papirosn” (Cigarettes), lyrics by Herman Yablokoff
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...
APRIL 29, 1914: The Guggenheims’ mining disaster
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...
Second memorial ceremony for fallen ultra-Orthodox soldiers goes virtual
A memorial commemorating fallen soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces who fought in haredi Orthodox units was broadcasted on Monday night from the Hechal Shlomo auditorium in Jerusalem without an audience due to restrictions related to...
Israel Film Archive digitalizes extensive collection, starts to release films online
After years of work on digitizing its collection of Israeli film clips, the Israel Film Archive (IFA), part of the Jerusalem Cinematheque, is beginning to share its collection online with the goal of eventually...
Meet the Jewish African American Basketball Superstar
Let's be honest, when discussing a Jewish athlete we consider them a star at any point if they were able to make it to a professional League. However, the athlete we are going to...
This year, we commemorate our loved ones in different ways
My brothers and sisters in bereavement, in our 72 years of independence we have known various memorial days. We have marked them in times of wars and battles, in times of military campaigns and...
Israeli Memorial Day: Mourning in masks and ‘Ikea-Gate’
For the first time in the history of the Jewish state, mourners did not descend en masse upon the country’s 53 military cemeteries on Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims...
Sufism, the sublime way to the elevation of the being
Sufism is considered the mystical side of Islam, the bearer of the hidden mysteries of divine revelation. In its essence, it is defined as a spiritual path and is translated into the existence of...