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Keeping Songs Alive — With Karaoke
Mention karaoke, and most people think about tacky bars where alcohol-impaired customers mumble forgettable renditions of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive,” or maybe something more contemporary from the songbook of Britney Spears. But a father and son in California are following the bouncing ball online with a more sober mission, using karaoke as a way…
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Evangelical Children’s Novels Push Conversion of ‘Spiritually Empty’ Jews
They are among the most popular children’s books on the market today, inspired by the evangelical Christian “Left Behind” book series, which features gory depictions of the annihilation of Jews and other nonbelievers at Armageddon. “Left Behind: The Kids,” an ongoing series aimed at evangelical Christian children ages 10 to 14, revolves around the adventures…
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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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Israeli Designer Goes Her Own Way
The February 25 article “Israeli Designer Goes Her Own Way” stated that some of fashion designer Roni Rabl’s source material comes from a factory in Gaza. The factory in question is at the Erez Junction, which is considered part of Israel. The March 4 article “Top Jewish Council Urges Congress Not To Block Plan for…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL March 18, 2005
On his 50th yahrzeit, poet Yosef Rolnick was featured in the Forverts on the pages devoted to Pearls of Yiddish Poetry. Rolnick’s poems were the works of a man whose life was crammed with loneliness, sorrow and sentiment. What follows is his most famous poem, “Zun in Mayrev” (“The Sun in the West”), as transliterated…
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Evangelical Children’s Novels Push Conversion of ‘Spiritually Empty’ Jews
They are among the most popular children’s books on the market today, inspired by the evangelical Christian “Left Behind” book series, which features gory depictions of the annihilation of Jews and other nonbelievers at Armageddon. “Left Behind: The Kids,” an ongoing series aimed at evangelical Christian children ages 10 to 14, revolves around the adventures…
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Can a ‘Revival’ Ensure True Survival?
The dispute over whether Yiddish will survive or not — and if so, in what guise — has lasted nearly as long as modern Yiddish itself. Nearly 100 years ago, in l908, the question of what Yiddish is and what its future might hold was posed sharply at a conference held in Chernowitz, Romania (now…
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Less Gory ‘Passion’ Still Raises Hackles
In an effort to make his bloody blockbuster about the death of Jesus more palatable, Oscar-winning director Mel Gibson has edited about six minutes of violent footage from his 2004 hit, “The Passion of the Christ.” The film, which some scholarly critics say ahistorically blames Jews for Jesus’ death while promoting ancient anti-Jewish stereotypes, reopened…
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Story of Esther Gets a Bit Hairy
The latest offering from the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre is, quite literally, a drag. “The Megile of Shloyme Klugerman,” the company’s Purim shpiel, goes on the road later this month. A family-oriented production with a twist, the newly revised musical — based on the ancient story of Queen Esther — features an all-male cast. Although modern…
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Newsdesk March 18, 2005
Gay Parade Slammed Evangelical Christians in America and ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel are uniting to block an international gay pride parade in Jerusalem this summer. The anti-gay coalition, which includes Israeli lawmakers, aims to collect 1 million signatures opposing the World Pride Parade in Jerusalem. The parade is part of a 10-day global interfaith gay…
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The Curious Contronym
Dan Mosenkis of Fair Lawn, N.J., writes: A while back there was a contest to find English words which meant both one thing and its opposite; the only ones I remember are “cleave” and “sanction.” It occurs to me, though, that the Hebrew root shakhah. also yields two such words, nishkah., “forgotten,” and shakhiah., “common”…
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