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  • The Big Bupkis: A Complete Gentile's Guide to Yiddish Vaudeville 9 Dec 2009 01:12 GMT
    ... may claim to be a guide for gentiles, but it really instructs his primarily Jewish audience on how a Missouri goy came to be fluent in Yiddish performance and language. Supposedly he's about to accept the Young Yiddish Vaudevillian of the ...

  • What Will Happen When Judaism Accepts Half-Jewish People? 8 Dec 2009 23:07 GMT
    ... fate, based on how interfaith couples and Jews by Choice (converts) program attendees are currently ... two Jewish parents, married to a similar Jew, knows what is best for us -- ... shul membership, learning Hebrew, liturgy, Jewish history, Yiddish and Ladino literature translated into English, etc. ...

  • Yiddish King Lear on the Relief Roll 8 Dec 2009 23:10 GMT
    ... government bankrolled some of the most innovative Yiddish stage productions in the 20th century when ... Gordin’s drama portrays Dovid Moysheles, a Lear-like Jewish businessman in Vilna who decides to give ... as they are told. These two modern Jews prefer to study medicine, become doctors and ...

  • Holding on to Hanukkah 8 Dec 2009 12:50 GMT
    ... of both celebration and stress for many Jews. The eight-day holiday, which begins Friday night, ... night, recalls the rededication of the holy Jewish Temple in Jerusalem after victory over the ... games and give out chocolate gelt, a Yiddish term for money. The dreidel and chocolate ...

  • Dustin Hoffman - Up Close and Personal 8 Dec 2009 19:45 GMT
    ... Romania, lived with us, and she'd speak Yiddish to my parents so my brother and ... own a Cadillac and if you were Jewish, you wanted your son to be a ... I love being a Jew! I love Jew food. I love the humor. I love the ...

  • Official Pre-Release Listening Party for Levitt Legacy Klezmer 8 Dec 2009 17:20 GMT
    ... came from a long line of professional Jewish musicians; he was the son on of ... klezmer trombonist Yankl "Jack" Levitt a noted Yiddish theater musician and member of the famed ...

  • Official Pre-Release Listening Party for Levitt Le... 8 Dec 2009 20:11 GMT
    ... came from a long line of professional Jewish musicians; he was the son on of ... klezmer trombonist Yankl "Jack" Levitt a noted Yiddish theater musician and member of the famed ...

  • Hitler's remains are real: Russian domestic security service 8 Dec 2009 14:14 GMT
    ... German district a... Tel Aviv - Reports of its death are greatly exaggerated. The European-Jewish language Yiddish, the demise of which has been forecast for years, will not become extinct for ...

  • Rembrandt masterpiece sells for over 33 million dollars 8 Dec 2009 22:33 GMT
    ... German district a... Tel Aviv - Reports of its death are greatly exaggerated. The European-Jewish language Yiddish, the demise of which has been forecast for years, will not become extinct for ...

  • For Antwerp Jews, turns out diamonds aren't forever 3 Dec 2009 19:10 GMT
    ... For Antwerp Jews, turns out diamonds aren't forever Some years ... would have been unheard of for a Jew in Antwerp to get his hands dirty ... agent. “Religious or not, everyone speaks heimishe Yiddish. Even by the non-Jews, the code word ...

  • Think you don't know Yiddish? Oy vey 4 Dec 2009 23:43 GMT
    ... shul, you can tell a lot about Jews by what they call their house of ... partly by the use of Hebrew and Yiddish words and phrases. The survey, by researchers ... at Reform Judaism's flagship seminary, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, found that the use ...

  • Early Yiddish Recordings Preserved on New CD-Set 7 Dec 2009 21:40 GMT
    ... Early Yiddish Recordings Preserved on New CD-Set Sometimes the ... York: 7,000 hemstitchers, pleaters and tuckers, many Jewish, had gone on strike, while Zionist leaders ... for his support following a massacre of Jews in Hebron. Old newspapers tell us that. ...

  • Jewish CDs: Two approaches to Yiddish 4 Dec 2009 07:58 GMT
    ... The Nazis obliterated much of the Yiddish language at the height of its cultural ... the inclination to sentimentality increases.” Two recent Jewish music CDs draw on Yiddish repertoire. Their ... Yiddish folk music and how New York Jews became the carriers and preservers of Yiddish ...

  • Sephardic Rabbi Joshua Toledano, Dies at the Age of 69 3 Dec 2009 17:12 GMT
    ... Rabbi Joshua Toledano, a scion of a rabbinic ... about the customs and practices of the Jewish communities from Islamic nations. "He said, 'Listen, we ... also noted the languages he spoke: Arabic, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, German, English and Spanish. Toledano ...

  • Seeking Jewish roots in Bob Dylan's music 6 Dec 2009 11:55 GMT
    ... Dylan, the songwriter, was influenced by his Jewish heritage. He does so by making connections ... Jewish upbringing and his life-long connection to Judaism. To say he accomplishes this goal is ... Scripture and immigrant forebears who still spoke Yiddish and maintained traditional religious practices. The background ...


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