Acclaimed Director Lila Neugebauer Touts Her Yiddish Roots
Lila Neugebauer is constantly busy these days. For several years now the award-winning 32-year-old Off Broadway director has been working on between five to seven plays a year, not to mention smaller projects on the side.
The Surfing Orthodox Rabbi Who Inspires Kids To Get Fit
Rabbi Nachum Shifren, a.k.a. The Surfing Rabbi, hopes rabbis will encourage their yeshiva students to be more physically active.
New Folksbiene Play: Singing Against Trump’s America
Thirty-five years ago, Zalmen Mlotek and Moishe Rosenfeld co-wrote the script for a musical called “The Golden Land” in honor of the 85th anniversary of the Forverts, the world’s oldest Yiddish newspaper.
EXCLUSIVE: Did Writer Sholem Asch Reject His Orphaned Nephews?
In a 1945 letter, his wife writes that they simply couldn’t take care of his brother’s children who had just survived the Holocaust.
Can an Orthodox Jew See the World Through Palestinian Eyes?
Menachem Daum’s “The Ruins of Lifta” is a complex, thought-provoking film which shows what happens when an Orthodox filmmaker meets a Palestinian on the West Bank.