admin | December 11, 2019
Cheers, bravos, and five curtain calls greeted the shattering finale to Mieczysaw Weinbergs Piano Trio in A minor: a work written in Moscow in 1945 and performed in late October of this year at Londons Wigmore Hall as the climax of an entire day devoted to Weinbergs chamber music. The great Polish-Soviet Jewish composer was born 100 years ago, on December 8, 1919, and his centenary year has seen numerous performances by important artists in major venues as well as conferences and books devoted to his work
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admin | December 11, 2019
On 12 September 2015, Jeremy Corbyn, a hard-left politician with little public profile and no tangible achievements in a parliamentary career stretching back almost a third of a century, was elected leader of the Labour Party and set about transforming British politics, perhaps forever. Corbyns election stunned Britain. In hindsight, it turned out to be the beginning of a larger global anti-liberal backlash that would see Corbyn joined by Donald Trump and other fringe politicians who would rise to power on the strength of their disdain for perceived elitist norms
Category: Jewish American Heritage Month |
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admin | December 11, 2019
Renowned Israeli actor Yehezkel Lazarov comes to America to star in "Fiddler on the Roof" at National Theatre. In 1964, the original Broadway production won nine Tonys, including Best Musical, en route to an honorary tenth Tony as the longest-running musical in Broadway history. In 1971, the film version starring Topol earned eight Oscar nominations, winning three
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admin | December 9, 2019
The biggest sensation in the Hasidic music world has asked me to meet him at a Lakewood strip mall.
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admin | December 9, 2019
The Health Ministry will reportedly investigate four psychiatrists after a television report said they had prescribed drugs to ultra-Orthodox students, including minors, to inhibit their sexual desires. In an expose aired over the weekend, Channel 12 sent two formerly ultra-Orthodox men undercover to seek care from the prominent mental health professionals Prof
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admin | December 9, 2019
A construction worker. A substitute teacher
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admin | December 9, 2019
(JTA) Michelle Farber has spent decades teaching Talmud to Jewish women. But when her first child was born, she was relieved it was a boy. When my son was born, I said, Good, we had a boy first, itll give the world a little time to catch up for women, Farber said.
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admin | December 9, 2019
Do You Want To Know Shas? Dear Fellow Students, We use the expression The Sea of the Talmud because the Talmud is vast, deep and apparently unending. It is fascinating, intricate and instructive.
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admin | December 9, 2019
The Talmud tells us that he who saves the life of one Jew can be thought of as having saved an entire world. Other editions of the Talmud state that saving the life of any human being, Jew and non-Jew alike, is comparable to saving an entire world. What would those Sages say about someone who, during the darkness of the Nazi era, saved the lives of thousands of intermarried Jews and non-Jews and their families, by finding a way to list them all as bona fide non-Jews doing this with steadfast determination, despite the considerable risk to his own life
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admin | December 9, 2019
Gilad Atzmon writes: Once every day a Labour Party official offers a grovelling apology to the Jewish community, but for some peculiar reason its leaders seem unforgiving. They dont take Corbyns expressions of remorse seriously.
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