Barbara Finkelstein
By Barbara Finkelstein
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Forverts in English I grew up Jewish on a chicken farm. This book gets it right.
The surprising story of Holocaust survivors in rural New Jersey
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Forverts in English He captured striking images of city life. Why haven’t we heard of him?
Fred Stein also created portraits of many luminaries, including Albert Einstein. Now his son and others are introducing Stein’s oeuvre to a new generation
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Forverts in English Satmar businessman Joel Klein: ‘Hasidim are living the American dream’
Responding to criticism of Hasidic schools, Klein invites people to Williamsburg to see how Hasidic businesses are thriving.
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Forverts in English Move over, JSwipe, there’s a new dating app for Jewish singles
Filteroff’s virtual dating app has begun hosting Orthodox Jewish events.
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Forverts in English Free burial society buys refrigerated trailer to hold pandemic’s backlog of bodies
Read this article in Yiddish. The non-profit organization that provides free, traditional burials for the Jewish poor has had to buy a massive trailer to manage the high volume of deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic. It holds more than a dozen bodies, and the organization doesn’t have enough people or time to bury them…
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Forverts in English Coronavirus-related deaths on the rise among the Jewish poor
Read this article in Yiddish A New York-based burial society has applied for emergency funding as it races to keep up with steep increases in the cost of coronavirus-related personal protective equipment, additional grave openings and new personnel to arrange funerals. The 132-year-old Hebrew Free Burial Association, which arranges burials for indigent Jews, expects to…
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Forverts in English Why Etgar Keret wanted his prizewinning book translated into Yiddish
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. When Etgar Keret won a prestigious Israeli literature prize that includes a translation into Arabic and any other language, he made the surprising choice of Yiddish, the first in the prize’s 20-year history to do so. But you don’t have to read far into Keret’s winning short-story…
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News Moderate Haredi voices challenge extremist war against female images
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. After the Haredi newspaper Di Tzeitung published a photo in 2011 that intentionally deleted then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the editor issued a defense: “In keeping with our religious beliefs, we do not publish photographs of women.” Di Tzeitung’s “we” instigated a firestorm of criticism from the…
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