Jon Kalish is a Manhattan-based writer and radio journalist.
Jon Kalish
By Jon Kalish
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Fast Forward How the NY Public Library acquired a ‘treasure trove’ of Jewish and Yiddish music
Manuscripts and arrangements of music performed on Yiddish radio station WEVD sat in a basement for 40 years
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Music How two Jewish musicians turned front porches in Brooklyn into a vibrant music scene
Roy Nathanson and Aaron Lisman are turning Ditmas Park residents of all ages into jazz aficionados
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Culture How a pair of visionary Jews found a link between Jewish and Native American cultures
Even though poet Jerome Rothenberg is gone, his collaboration with composer Charlie Morrow goes on
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Culture This 100-year-old Jewish activist is speaking up again — this time about Gaza
For Jules Rabin of Vermont, reading and staying engaged are crucial to longevity
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Sports For an Israeli Chicago Bulls’ fan slain on Oct. 7, a final gift from that team’s star forward
DeMar DeRozan signed a jersey in memory of Oron Beilin, who was murdered at the rave near kibbutz Re'im
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Fast Forward Ruth Seymour, public radio pioneer devoted to Jewish culture, dies at 88
The Bronx-born broadcasting executive grew L.A.’s KCRW into a public radio powerhouse
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Culture Survivors of the Hamas massacre are suffering from trauma — meet the therapist helping them work through it
Therapist Lisa Fliegel's experiences with the Boston Marathon bombing and inner-city homicide prepared her for Israel
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Film & TV In a blockbuster film about the Ukrainian Robin Hood, the Baal Shem Tov makes his debut
Actor Luzer Twersky portrays the founder of Hasidic Judaism in the movie 'Dovbush'
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Yiddish ייִדישע דעטעקטיװ־מעשׂיות פֿון דער אַמאָליקער גאַליציע — אויף ענגלישYiddish detective stories from Galicia, now in English
דער שרײַבער יונה קרעפּעל האָט געשאַפֿן דעם „ייִדישן שערלאָק האָלמעס“, מאַקס שפּיצקאָפּף, װאָס האָט געראַטעװעט ייִדן פֿון כּלערלײ צרות.
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Fast Forward In a final interview, Jane Goodall said she wanted to send Netanyahu on a one-way trip to space
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Yiddish „איך פֿיל דעם טאַטן די גאַנצע צײַט“ “I feel my father all the time”
די מחברטע איז די 14־יאָריקע טאָכטער פֿון דעניס בעלענקי, אַ קרבן פֿון די אַטאַקן פֿונעם 7טן אָקטאָבער
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