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Prestigious Award for Israeli Choreographer

By Devra Ferst

Dancer, choreographer, innovator — many words have been used to describe Ohad Naharin, artistic director of Israel’s premier modern dance group, the Batsheva Dance Company. But Dance Magazine, in its 2009 award, given at a ceremony November 9 in New York, simply called him the man who “revolutionized international dance.”Read More

Jewish Women Lag Behind Men in Promotion and Pay

By Jane Eisner and Devra Ferst

Despite notable gains for women in the past year, a Forward survey of 75 major American Jewish communal organizations found that fewer than one in six are run by women, and those women are paid 61 cents to every dollar earned by male leaders.Read More

The Pitselech Are Reviving Yiddish

By Devra Ferst

Oy gevalt, Yiddish is dying. It’s listed in the Encyclopedia of The World’s Endangered Languages, which means that an entire generation is at risk of not knowing such phrases as nosh, shmear, pitsel and shayna maidel. Indeed, where would we be as a people without some good bagels and shmear? Unless bubbes, zaidies and alter kochers (grumpy old men) keep teaching us Yiddish words, they might be lost to the dreck (garbage) forever.Read More

Hummus Wars

By Devra Ferst

Battles over the origins of hummus have raged across the Middle East for generations, with Israelis and Lebanese arguing over which group can claim rights to the first ever recipe and who makes the precious dip better. Recently, however, the war has reached new heights.Read More

We Remember, on Facebook

By Devra Ferst

It seems like an oxymoron to be a Jew and be a “fan” of Auschwitz, but there are more than 10,000 such fans.Read More


 

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