Jon Kalish is a Manhattan-based writer and radio journalist.
Jon Kalish
By Jon Kalish
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Culture How the chicken man of Crown Heights became a Hasidic St. Francis of Assisi
Near Lubavitcher Headquarters, 21-year-old Daniel Yeroshalmi keeps watch over the 20 hens in the Crown Heights Homestead
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Music How hundreds of forgotten klezmer tunes have been rescued from oblivion
Thanks to a mammoth Klezmer Institute digitization project, we can hear Jewish music that hasn't been played for generations
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Culture How a troublemaking private school dropout became the Johnny Appleseed of tech
Sure, Tekserve founder David Lerner could be difficult, but he was also the consummate mensch
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Culture Is the movie ‘Nuremberg’ about the wrong psychiatrist?
The movie stars Rami Malek as the psychiatrist Douglas Kelley — but what about Leon Goldensohn?
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Film & TV How a Jewish schoolteacher from New Jersey made it to Hollywood and Broadway at the same time
In 'Blue Moon,' Robert Kaplow joins forces with Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater to give a tragic genius his due
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Culture A new documentary shows what it looks like when Hasidic education fails
New documentary 'Unorthodox Education' explores what happens after children leave the yeshiva world
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Culture Kinky Friedman has been gone a year, but his family’s summer camp lives on
Tom and Min Friedman's Echo Hill Ranch is enjoying a second life as a camp for the children of Gold Star families
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Culture Greetings Comrade, and welcome to the Communist camp for working-class Jews
Located near Beacon, New York, Camp Nitgedaiget offered a proletarian alternative to the Borscht Belt
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