„בלוט און בלינצעס“: פּרעמיערע פֿון אַ ייִדישער וואַמפּירן־פּיעסע“Blood and Blintzes”: Premiere of a Yiddish vampire play
וואָס טרינקט אַ ייִדישער וואַמפּיר אַז בלוט איז דאָך טרייף?
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News Henderson, Nev., has a growing Jewish population. Here’s what locals love about living Jewishly in the desert.
HENDERSON, Nev. (JTA) — Gershon and Leslie Wolf relocated from Brooklyn to Las Vegas in August 2006, then returned to the East Coast in 2010 to join their son and daughter and their families. But four years later, when the kids decided they’d had enough of the high prices, snowstorms and weeklong power outages, the…
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News Why Borough Park has NYC’s lowest vaccination rates
Borough Park, the Orthodox enclave in Brooklyn that was an early hotspot for COVID-19 cases and deaths last year, now has the lowest portion of fully vaccinated people of any New York City neighborhood, according to newly released public-health data. Less than 11% of the neighborhood’s population is fully vaccinated, per the city’s health department…
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News Was Cuomo’s expletive comments about Sukkot a slip of the tongue or something more?
Demeaning comments made in private by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo earlier in his political career about the festival of Sukkot raised some eyebrows in the Jewish community on Tuesday. In an extensive profile of Cuomo in the New York TImes Magazine, journalist Matt Flegenheimer reported that during the 2006 campaign for attorney general, Cuomo…
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Community Will anyone donate a kidney to save my friend’s life?
The best way to introduce you to my longtime friend and colleague Chuck Winer is the story of his chance meeting with President Obama. When most people meet the leader of the free world, they simply shake his hand and rejoice at the great honor bestowed on them. Not Chuck. He seized the opportunity during…
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News Boris Volynov was the first Jew in space. Antisemitism nearly prevented him from going.
Sixty years ago this week, for the first time in human history, one of our species ventured beyond the atmosphere. That man was Yuri Gargarin, a young Soviet cosmonaut who manned the Vostok 1 spacecraft. On April 12, 1961, he became the first human being to orbit the planet. Despite rumors to the contrary, Gargarin…
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Culture Forgotten until now, these female resistance fighters lured Hitler’s soldiers to their deaths
More than a decade ago, Judy Batalion accidentally stumbled upon a Yiddish-language book in the British Library. Published in 1946, the book comprised a collection of memoirs of “ghetto girls,” young Jewish women who revolted against the Nazis in Poland. These women tricked the Gestapo into carrying their luggage filled with contraband, hid revolvers in…
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Culture May 12: Surveying American Jewry
This talk will take place on Wednesday, May 12 at 3:30 p.m. ET / 12:30 p.m. PT Watch on Facebook Live here. Forward reporter Arno Rosenfeld will interview Alan Cooperman from Pew Research Center about the Center’s new report. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes…
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Fast Forward Israel to allow vaccinated tour groups starting in May
(JTA) — Israel will be reopening its gates to fully vaccinated tour groups on May 23. The Jewish state hopes to allow individual vaccinated tourists by early July, a source in its Tourism Ministry told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Israel has vaccinated most of its own population, and largely reopened public and recreational spaces, while…
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Books They couldn’t find any books on Ashkenazi herbs — so they wrote one
Deatra Cohen was studying to become an herbalist when her teacher assigned what seemed like a straightforward task: researching and reporting on the herbal cures and practices of her own culture. But the project was anything but simple. A retired librarian, Cohen was adept at navigating databases and combing through archives. But she could find…
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