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Verter fun der Vokh: דער סילווע֜סטער־אָוונט – New Year’s Eve!
פֿון אַלטן אַוועק, צום נײַעם פֿאָרויס!
מיר ווינטשן אײַך אַלעמען אַ גוט יאָר, אַ גליקלעך יאָר,
און – צום סאַמע וויכטיקסטן – אַ געזונט יאָר!
Out with the old, in with the new!
We wish you all a good...
January 5, 1939: Nazis Declare: Karaites Are Not Racially Jewish
On January 5, 1939, the Reich Office for Genealogical Research issued a written opinion stating that it did not view the Karaite community as being racially connected to the Jews.
Although this was hardly the...
Pripetshik-zingers @ Yugntruf Yidish-vokh, 2002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n47fihFDp7Q
Pripetshik Singers / פּריפּעטשיק־זינגערס
Der debyut-kontsert / דער דעביוט־קאָנצערט
Binyumen Schaechter, Muzik-direktor
בנימין שעכטער, מוזיק־דירעקטאָר
Filmirt umformel, nisht redaktirt / פֿילמירט אומפֿאָרמעל, נישט רעדאַקטירט
An emeser kontsert (Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman) 0:00
Enge-bengenikes mir (Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman) 2:28
Tsipele (Moyshe Broderzon / Yisroyl Glatstein)...
Azeri Jewish grandmaster Teimour Radjabov wins chess championship and $60,000
Azeri-Jewish chess grandmaster Teimour Radjabov, 33, became emotional following his victory on Sunday in the final match of the Champions Chess Tour Airthings Masters online tournament, winning the $60,000 grand prize.
His opponent in the...
MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh: Prompting a paradigm shift between Israel and the Diaspora
Michal Cotler-Wunsh is an Israeli-Canadian member of Knesset currently serving within the Blue and White Party, though just announced that she will not run with Blue and White in the upcoming elections—Israel’s fourth round...
Triangular Friendship: USA, Morocco and Israel
The U.S. decision to recognize the Moroccan Sahara was not expressed through a statement or a communiqué, but by a presidential proclamation (decree). It is a strong political and legal act. Very much like...
A look back at the ‘Arab Spring,’ 10 years later
It’s hard to believe that this week will have been a decade since Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian fruit vendor, set himself ablaze on Jan. 4, 2011, setting off what has come to be known...
Senior Hamas official recalls how Qassem Soleimani gave him $22 million in suitcases
Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar said in a recent interview that soon after his first meeting with Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander wound up giving him $22...
France gives $10 million to pro-BDS Palestinian group
France’s government has given roughly $10 million to a Palestinian group that supports boycotting Israel, despite the fact that in the country, promoting BDS is illegal.
The French Development Agency, or AFD, which focuses on...
Suspect in Esther Horgen murder identified as Muhammad Cabha
Israel’s Security Agency, the Shin Bet, cleared for publication on Monday the identity of the suspect in the murder of 52-year-old Esther Horgen, whose body was discovered in a Judea and Samaria forest on Dec. 20.
Muhammad...