Some shuls are banning Shlomo Carlebach
He was perhaps the most prominent 20th-century composer of American Jewish music, but his reputation has been tarnished by accusation...
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Poland wants to ban the term ‘Polish death camps’
There are historical inaccuracies on both sides of the debate regarding identifying death camps By CNAAN LIPSHIZ (JTA) — The...
Yiddish Vinkl will discuss ‘God of Vengeance’ and ‘Indecent’
The Yiddish Vinkl presents a discussion and readings from Got fun Nekome (God of Vengeance), by Yiddish playwright Sholem Asch,...
A novelistic look at the Nazi Olympics
Oliver Hilmes, an acclaimed biographer of Alma Mahler, Cosima Wagner, Franz Liszt and others, turns his sights on the 1936...
The punchline is in Yiddish
Schvitz, delis and Yiddish: Becoming an old Jewish man by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor I’m not quite sure when...