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Hitkansut
Hitkansut. (Hit-kahn-SOOT.) Keep an eye out for it. It’s already a much bandied about and argued about Hebrew buzzword, and it’s going to become even more of one. It’s not an easy word to translate. According to the context, it might be rendered in English as “getting together,” “rallying round,” “gathering oneself” or “withdrawing into…
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Honoring Italy at the Intrepid Museum
“My name is Guillermo Bianco. [Tonight] we are all Italians and welcome you,” Intrepid Foundation President Bill White proclaimed at the March l Intrepid Freedom Award dinner honoring Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Among the 1,000 black-tie and uniformed guests aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum were Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham Foxman;…
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Monthly Publication Sets Sights on Young Readers
most people agree that the future of yiddish depends on cultivating a new generation of young people who speak and read the language. In response to the glaring shortage of contemporary reading material for today’s students of Yiddish, the Forverts has begun publishing a monthly news supplement called Vayter (a synonym for “Forward”), written in…
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Conservative Rabbi, in Swan Song, Warns Against Liberal Shift
MEXICO CITY — In a final address to his fellow Conservative rabbis as the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Ismar Schorsch accused his liberal colleagues of undermining the movement’s historic commitment to faith, intellectualism and rabbinic law. Speaking Sunday in Mexico City at the annual convention of the movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, Schorsch…
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Stars Still Shine On 2nd Avenue Walk of Fame Survives Deli’s Demise But Its Fate is Unclear
The kitchen equipment and famous blue sign with Hebrew-style lettering were carted away when the Second Avenue Deli shut its doors in January, but the restaurant’s monument to Yiddish theater is staying — at least for now. The Yiddish Walk of Fame, a double row of granite stars embedded in the sidewalk in front of…
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In Unruly Bolivia, Orchestra’s Chief Wields Baton Against the Brickbats
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Dozens of street protests have paralyzed downtown La Paz since David Handel first became conductor of the Bolivian National Symphony Orchestra in 1997. Turning violent at times, the protests have forced two presidents out of office. Handel has learned to take these extraordinary events in stride in a city that is…
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Old Songs Reach New Audiences — Online
Imagine a tenement kitchen, circa 1890. A mother lifts her howling baby, his tiny hands knotted in fists, legs pounding the air. She cradles his head against her shoulder, and begins swaying rhythmically. While the child melts into sleepy silence, she sings a popular lullaby: “Rozhinkes mit Mandlen” (“Raisins and Almonds”). It’s been decades since…
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Jericho Siege Seen as Model
TEL AVIV — Israel’s takeover of the Palestinian prison in Jericho on March 14 can be seen as a microcosm reflecting developments within the Palestinian Authority, Israel’s relations with the Palestinians and the kind of future that lies in store for the both sides under a Hamas-led P.A. The decision to refrain from a full-scale…
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In Academia, Yiddish Is Seen, But Not Heard
If Yiddish has a future on college campuses, it may literally go unspoken. In Yiddish studies programs across the country, a new generation of scholars are learning Yiddish as a language of scholarship, but many of them never master Yiddish as a language of conversation. This was in evidence at a graduate student conference on…
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Next for New Orleans: A Jewish Mayor?
NEW ORLEANS — A three-man band played bluesy tunes from a makeshift stage. A woman conducted business ladling out gumbo at $7 per Styrofoam cup. A tall man in slacks and comfortable shoes worked the crowd as residents of the Broadmoor neighborhood here held a street party Saturday to cheer themselves up and proclaim that…
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Exploring Poetry’s Feminine Side
Barnett Zumoff sat and peered through thick-rimmed bifocals at his latest book, “Songs to a Moonstruck Lady: Women in Yiddish Poetry,” as he flipped through the pages, trying to find a favorite poem. He already had found and read aloud two favorite poems — he has, he confessed, a lot of favorites — but he…
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