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Hezbollah chief in 2016: Strike on Haifa ammonia tanks like ‘nuclear attack’
In a Feb. 16, 2016, speech aired on Al-Manar TV, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened the Israeli ammonia-storage facilities in Haifa. He quoted an Israeli expert, saying that a missile attack on the ammonia tanks would...
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Dr. Henry Slucki
Hear and Meet a Holocaust Survivor
For over three decades, Holocaust survivors have volunteered their time at the Museum of Tolerance to speak about their experiences during World War II. Over 50,000 visitors per year...
Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain dies after contracting COVID-19
Businessman and former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has died at age 74 as a result of the coronavirus, his website posted on Thursday.
While it wasn’t certain how he contracted COVID-19, he did attend U.S. President...
Jewish groups, customers denounce Nazi face masks worn in Minnesota Walmart
Jewish groups have rebuked a couple who was confronted at a Walmart in Marshall, Minn., on July 25 for wearing Nazi swastika-flags on their face masks.
Raphaela Mueller, who was born and raised in Germany...
Scholar: Palestinians have up to 15 children, moms ‘willing to sacrifice two or three’
Palestinian scholar Mahmoud al-Shajrawi said during a recent interview with Turkey’s Channel 9 TV that the Jews will never give the Palestinians land on which they can establish a Palestinian state because they are “tight-fisted,” as...
Mentshn-Fresser, feat. Sveta Kundish & Daniel Kahn. This 100-Year-Old Yiddish Pandemic Song Could Have...
In 1916, Solomon Smulevitz, a Yiddish musician and entertainer who immigrated to America from Belarus, wrote “Mentshn-Fresser.” The song’s title means “man eater,” or “devourer of mankind.”
Written by Solomon Small (Smulewitz), 1916, Hebrew Publishing...
“A dank dir, mayn lebn” – Chilean classic “Gracias a la vida”, sung in...
Maybe the most beautiful hymn to life ever written with no need of further introductions or explanations. It is a song telling everything in itself, and going directly inside the core of everyone of...
Avreiml der Marvikher, performed by Florian Pollak, Roman Grinberg and the Vienna JazzKlez Band
Mordechai Gebirtig, born in 1877 in Krakow, Poland, was a Yiddish folk poet and songwriter. Gebirtig had three daughters, for whom he wrote and performed his poems. The words were set to improvised melodies,...
What The U.S. Coronavirus Response Says About American Exceptionalism
Coronavirus cases in Florida, Arizona and South Carolina are increasing faster than in any other country in the world, reigniting the debate over American exceptionalism. Nick Schifrin talks to former Mexican foreign minister Jorge...
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...