Adi Mahalel
By Adi Mahalel
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Yiddish World Acclaimed Director Lila Neugebauer Touts Her Yiddish Roots
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. 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. Her resume includes collaborations with Karen O, lead singer for the…
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Yiddish World The Surfing Orthodox Rabbi Who Inspires Kids To Get Fit
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. As a young boy growing up near the ocean in Los Angeles, Rabbi Nachum Shifren would often take a surfboard under his arm and hit the waves. It wasn’t until he was 30, while living in Santa Barbara, that he became inspired by the local Chabad to become an Orthodox Jew. At…
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Culture New Folksbiene Play: Singing Against Trump’s America
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. 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. The goal then was to depict, through Yiddish song, the first decades of Eastern European Jewish immigration…
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Yiddish World EXCLUSIVE: Did Writer Sholem Asch Reject His Orphaned Nephews?
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The classic Yiddish writer, Sholem Asch, whose serialized stories once graced the pages of the Forverts, has become a familiar name as of late, thanks to the new theatrical production of his novel about a Jewish brothel owner, “God of Vengeance” and Paula Vogel‘s acclaimed drama about…
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Culture Can an Orthodox Jew See the World Through Palestinian Eyes?
Acclaimed Orthodox Jewish documentary filmmaker Menachem Daum is not one to shy away from controversy. In his newest film, “The Ruins of Lifta: Where the Holocaust and Nakba Meet,” which he produced with longtime collaborator Oren Rudavsky, he explores his personal feelings, as a child of Holocaust survivors, towards the Palestinians. Daum is best known…
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