Jon Kalish is a Manhattan-based writer and radio journalist.
Jon Kalish
By Jon Kalish
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Yiddish World The digitized ‘Yosl and Chana Mlotek Yiddish Song Collection’ is now live
The site provides lyrics, translation, songsheets and historical context for songs on many themes, including love, holidays and the labor struggle.
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Fast Forward A fake reality show trailer shines light on the real issue of child marriage
Founded by a Jewish activist, Unchained At Last is pushing for legislation that bans marriage for those under 18
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Theater In savaging the Israeli military, has a legendary puppet theater finally gone too far?
For even some longtime supporters, the politics at Bread and Puppet Theater have gotten too strident
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Culture On stage and in the classroom, Mikhl Yashinsky is stoking the flame of the Yiddish revival
The 32-year-old Chelsea resident is a Yiddish actor and playwright when he isn’t teaching the language at YIVO and The Workers Circle
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Culture ‘Married to the Mob,’ but under a chuppah: A new memoir details a Jewish family’s crime ties
Alan Geik chronicles the hitmen, gangsters and dirty cops who were part of his Bronx extended family in the heyday of the Jewish mob
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Film & TV His father directed ‘Casablanca,’ but he felt like a Jew without a home
Michael Forster fled Europe as a child, but never escaped the feeling of displacement and alienation
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Fast Forward Remembering Larry Josephson, a NY radio pioneer with a late love for all things Jewish
Josephson’s 50-year career as a producer included two series focused specifically on the Jewish community: “Only in America: The Story of American Jews,” and “What Is Judaism?”
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Music How Brooklyn klezmer great Andy Statman got a Grand Ole Opry welcome in Nashville
The clarinet and mandolin virtuoso and Orthodox Jew got a standing ovation in his debut at the country music mecca
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