Why Jews will miss the Corporation for Public Broadcasting terribly
Targeted by Trump, CPB — which helped bring us documentaries about Jewish culture as well as 'Sesame Street' — will close next year
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Culture Targeted by Trump for oblivion, the Voice of America once nurtured the dreams of Jews worldwide
Founded in 1942 to fight Nazi propaganda, the broadcaster won the hearts of listeners in dozens of languages
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News Antisemitic and racist shock jock is back on the radio, 11 years after being fired for tirade
Anthony Cumia, the former longtime host of Opie & Anthony, has joked about lynching and the Holocaust
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Yiddish World The tragic fate of a young Jewish children’s orchestra in 1933
This rare glimpse of a happy moment in prewar Jewish community life offers no hint of what lay ahead
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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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Yiddish World Recording an album as an eight-year old girl
One afternoon, when I was eight years old, my father and I traveled by train to a recording studio in Manhattan. My father was the khazn, or cantor, at the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center. We were making a record together with Sholom Secunda, the composer of the song “Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn”. The plan was…
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Culture How a radio pioneer named Steve Post set the stage for Howard Stern and Marc Maron
The best part of “Playing in the FM Band,” a new documentary about revolutionary radio personality Steve Post, finds our hero trapped in the bathroom of WNYC. “In the instant before my flesh made contact with the seat, I realized that I was clutching a cold, metal object in my right hand,” Post says in…
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Fast Forward A millennial Yiddish music maven launches a record label
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) – Steadfast listeners of “Borscht Beat” — a weekly FM radio show featuring Jewish music, old and new — will be thrilled to hear of host Aaron Bendich’s latest project: a new Jewish record label of the same name. On his hour-long radio program, the 27-year-old plays…
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