Daily Archives: December 4, 2020
Top women diplomats from Israel, UAE, Bahrain stress need for Mideast peace
Top women diplomats from Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain joined together on Thursday in a first-of-a-kind session to discuss the role of women in diplomacy, as well as the need for the...
Sylvan Adams donates $30 million for new emergency department in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv Sourasky-Ichilov Medical Center Tel Aviv announced a new emergency medicine department to be named after philanthropist Sylvan Adams, who donated NIS 100 million (more than $30 million) for its establishment.
The donation was...
The Upside-Down World of Birobidzhan
The latest in our Youtube series "Gehert a Mayse!/Have you heard?" is live!
The Upside-Down World of Birobidzhan
In the summer of 2007, Sheva Zucker, editor of Afn Shvel from 2005-2020, was invited to teach Yiddish...
Last Day for Discount on Yiddish Winter Program! + Info on Donating to YAAANA...
Happy December! This newsletter will be brief but contains a couple of important pieces of information. First, the last day to purchase a discounted registration package for the Not Your Usual Intensive Winter Yiddish...
UCLA launches Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
UCLA has opened North America’s first permanent academic home for the study of music of American Jewish experience.
Housed in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the new Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish...
On YouTube: JPPC sings 4 Yiddish Chanukah songs in 4-part harmony
The Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus (JPPC)
conducted by
Binyumen Schaechter
♫♫ 4 YIDDISH CHANUKAH SONGS ♫♫
IN 4-PART HARMONY!
Borekh ate
(Blessed Are You)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPyFJb_0FWo
Fayer, fayer
(Fire, Fire)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYZqH2vkaaU
Ikh bin a kleyner dreydl
(I Am a Little Dreidel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnODSttLSOg
Oy, Khanike, oy, Khanike
(O, Chanukah, Oh, Chanukah)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anhT8GcQj9o
To...
Join us as we discuss and enjoy a reading from Popol Vuh: A Retelling...
Join us as we discuss and enjoy a reading from Popol Vuh: A Retelling by Ilan Stavans with illustrator Gabriela Larios!
About this Event
Join us as we discuss and enjoy a reading from Popol Vuh: A...
British MP suspended for anti-Semitism is elected to party disciplinary board
A member of the British Parliament who served a suspension for anti-Semitism and was reinstated by his party has been elected to serve on his party’s disciplinary board.
Neale Hanvey of the Scottish National Party...