By Jon Kalish
From the Kalish archives: In a story that originally aired on WNYC, Jon Kalish takes us inside a Shmura matzo bakery in Boro Park, Brooklyn.
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By Jon Kalish
In this podcast, friends and colleagues of late artist Ira Cohen remember the self-described “conscience of planet Earth.”Read More
By Jon Kalish
In this podcast, friends and colleagues of the late Yiddish musician Adrienne Cooper remember the woman with “the voice of a diva and the soul of a bundist.”
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By Jon Kalish
In this Forward podcast go behind the scenes at Avatar Studios, as Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchok Meir Helfgot record a new album of cantorial and Yiddish music.
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By Jon Kalish
Scores of events have been scheduled to mark the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. The workplace disaster took place March 25, 1911, and killed 146 people — most of them young Jewish and Italian immigrant women. The Forward speaks with the filmmakers behind an HBO documentary on the fire, the composer of a new oratorio about the tragedy, descendants of those who died in the blaze, and strangers who visit the graves of the victims, among others commemorating the somber anniversary.
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