E.B. Solomont
By E.B. Solomont
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News Felon Elected To Head Council in Brooklyn
A convicted felon has been elected leader of a government-funded Chabad-dominated community council in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Despite serving a 15-month jail term for bank fraud, Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin captured 71% of the 1,208 votes cast in the recent election to head the Crown Heights Community Council. The council, a nonprofit group,…
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News Hip-hop Musician Returns to His Funky Roots
Josh Dolgin thinks the Yiddish revival is over. “Enough talk of this f—-ing revival,” the 28-year-old musician bellowed during a recent phone interview from his home in Montreal. “It’s not a revival anymore — because it’s alive.” And he would know. Dolgin, aka DJ So Called, has pushed Yiddish closer to what is cool and…
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News Young Singers Adapt Old Traditions for a New Generation
When the Pripetshik Singers take the stage, a certain buzz surrounds them. The oldest member of the all-Yiddish singing group is only 16 years old, making the singers the youngest Yiddish ensemble around — by decades. Pripetshik is so unusual, in fact, that last year, filmmaker Josh Waletzky and the group’s musical director, Binyumen Schaechter,…
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Israel News Bill To Revise Holocaust Classes
Bowing to protests from Jewish organizations, two Illinois state legislators have altered their proposal to include contemporary examples of genocide in mandatory Holocaust education courses. Jewish organizations were troubled last week over House Bill 312, a measure that would amend the state’s groundbreaking 15-year-old law requiring Holocaust education in public schools. In particular, critics complained…
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News Point, Click, Chuckle: Jewish Humor Goes Online
From riddles and one-liners to satires and comic strips, the Internet’s trove of Jewish humor goes on and on. This is instant gratification at its best, funnies at your fingertips. Even biographies of your favorite laugh masters have gone digital. The following is a short guide to Jewish knock-knock’s on the Web: JEWHOO! (www.jewhoo.com): For…
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Culture The Latest Round of Jewwear
Around three years ago, Jon Polsky and Josh Goldstein thought that T-shirts with Yiddish slogans would be cool. Polsky was recruited to model a “Mensch” shirt, and he willingly wore a navy shirt with an iron-on appliqué, thinking all was well and good. That was until last fall, when Yiddish Ts started cropping up all…
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