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Visions of the Wild casts wide net for international participation – Fairfield Daily Republic

| September 29, 2020

FAIRFIELD What do Louisville, Kentucky; Elche, Spain; Patras, Greece; and Fairfield, California have in common? Well, right off the bat, they are each at 38.2 degrees latitude on the globe, which puts all of them on the map, so to speak, for this years Visions of the Wild Film and Arts Festival, produced for the past seven years by the U.S

Nontraditional Sweets to Break the Fast – Jewish Exponent

| September 27, 2020

Photo by Keri WhiteIn many Sephardic cultures, the first bite to break the fast is traditionally something sweet a piece of cake, dried fruit, sugared nuts, a spoonful of jam or a milky, sweet drink made from an infusion of rosewater and toasted seeds. Some Ashkenazi Jews serve zimsterne, a star-shaped spice cookie, to start their break-fast. Todays column takes that theme and varies it a bit, featuring three different cookie recipes for your Yom Kippur buffet: white chocolate coconut raspberry jam cookies, flourless chocolate chocolate chip cookies and pecan snowball cookies

LISTEN: Israeli band Yamma has millions grooving to ancient Hebrew poetry – The Times of Israel

| September 27, 2020

Its not every day that President Reuven Rivlin posts a music video to his social media accounts.

The problem of the EUs golden passports – The Economist

| September 27, 2020

Sep 26th 2020 AN EU PASSPORT is one of the most desirable documents on the planet. Its bearer can live and work in 27 different countries, all of them prosperous and peaceful. Many have excellent food, too.

Over 50% of haredim say trust in gov’t harmed during coronavirus – survey – The Jerusalem Post

| September 13, 2020

The Israel Democracy Institute published a recent survey on Sunday that examines the extent to which the coronavirus pandemic has hindered the ultra-Orthodox (haredi) communitys trust in the haredi political parties.

Miracle discovery of Iraqi Jewish archives highlighted by new documentary – The Jerusalem Post

| September 13, 2020

Seventeen years ago a number of courageous individuals, with the help of US military personnel, entered the flooded basement Saddam Hussein's secret police headquarters in Baghdad and found a miracle: nearly 20,000 personal and religious artifacts confiscated from Iraq's Jewish community, some dating back to the 1600s. The Iraqi government had begun stripping Iraqi Jews of their property in 1952, leading the former owners to believe their treasures had been lost forever. Among the finds: handwritten notes by one of the leading Rabbinical scholars of the early 20th century, the Ben Ish Hai, and the records from the last Jewish school in Iraq, the Frank Iny School.

Praying on the Jewish High Holidays during Covid – liherald.com

| September 13, 2020

The Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are nearing, and Jews across North America and in the Five Towns who want to pray together will either attend synagogues, albeit in a unique environment, or use technology to connect spiritually. Because of the continuing coronavirus pandemic, returning to a synagogue now requires extra precautions, so many shuls will use virtual platforms to celebrate the holidays, as they have for other services

Moments of wonder as Anoushka Shankar pays tribute to her father Ravi at the BBC Proms – iNews

| September 13, 2020

George Harrison; Philip Glass; John Coltrane; Andre Previn: the list of musicians influenced by Ravi Shankar is as diverse as it is distinguished.

‘This will completely change Jewish life in Austria’: Thousands of Jews around the world expected to apply for Austrian citizenship through new rules…

| September 2, 2020

(JTA) Caroline Wellberys father, the late German literary scholar Egon Schwarz, fled Austria with his family after the Nazis annexed the country in 1938, when he was 15.

Summer Ends with Nights of Free Music in Ljubljana Old Town, 27-29 August 2020 – Total Slovenia News

| September 2, 2020

STA, 27 August 2020 - Slovenia-based artists will be in the focus of the 32nd Nights in Old Ljubljana Town. The international music festival will bring traditional sounds of modernity to the Ljubljana old town Thursday through Saturday. "Culture is one of the sectors that have been hit particularly hard by the current crisis," Jano Kern of organiser Imago Sloveniae has said in a press release.


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