Daily Archives: July 2, 2020
Vatican to US and Israel: Unilateral actions put peace at risk
The Vatican announced on Wednesday that its top diplomat, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, had met with both the Israeli and American ambassadors to express the Holy See’s concern over Israel’s plan to...
Former US Mideast negotiator: World mired in past on solving Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Ahead of the planned move by Israeli to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria, several leading Mideast experts and former senior officials debated the merits of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Peace to...
Anti-Semitic, anti-Israel groups to hold ‘Day of Rage’ rallies in US, worldwide
Anti-Semitic and anti-Israel groups are scheduled to hold “Day of Rage” rallies and vehicle caravans nationwide and abroad, protesting Israel’s plans to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria, also known as the...
July 2, 2016: Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies at...
Born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Romania, Elie Wiesel pursued Jewish religious studies before his family was forced into Nazi death camps during WWII. Wiesel survived, and later wrote the internationally acclaimed memoir Night....
Four Yiddish songs to honor The Fourth of July
Four Yiddish songs to honor
The Fourth of July
-- English translations provided --
Performed by the
Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC
Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor
"The Star-Spangled Banner" in Yiddish!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxCkt-HsHw
"America the Beautiful" in Yiddish!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UVVNE9wcg4
"America" (Yiddish song about Mount Rushmore)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p__Ggt3XUc0
"Fourth of July" (a.k.a. Zman...
[Live On Zoom] Yiddish Children’s Literature And Jewish Modernity
Thursday, July 2 | 4:30pm (EDT)
Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series
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Miriam Udel | Delivered in English.
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Scholars are only beginning to consider the corpus of nearly one thousand extant...