On April 7, 2019, the Tony Award winning musical, “The Band’s Visit,” will end its Broadway run. Based on Eran Kolirin’s sleepy 2007 film of the same name, this best musical is an...
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JewliciousEats: The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook Pays Homage to Fania Lewando
THE VILNA VEGETARIAN COOKBOOK BY FANIA LEWANDO (1938) Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today’s Kitchen With a Foreword by Joan Nathan and Translations from Yiddish and...
YIVO Gives a Zetz To Jewish Wrestlers As Mayweather and Pacquiao Prepare to Brawl
Thursday evening, 48 hours before the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight in Las Vegas, YIVO in Manhattan opened a small exhibit dedicated to the YIDDISH FIGHT CLUB – Yiddish speaking boxers and...
Jon Stewart Sucks…
…at Yiddish! Yeah relax there Fox News Fans. This isn’t an ideological shift or anything. See, Jason Bateman was on The Daily Show and he knows his Yiddish. He’s even been to a...
Last Yiddish Bookstore in NYC faces Closure; Israel Expands Arabic Language Instruction
Things to come? New York City’s last secular Yiddish bookstore is set to close shortly, unless someone steps in and finds it a new home. The “store”, called the “Central...
My Yiddishe Mama
I’ve been known to give Ashkenazic Jews a hard time on occasion, from the collection of jokes my family used to tell around the table, to poking fun at abominations such as Geffilte Fish...
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story – The New Film by Dan Katzir
I met Dan Katzir (as in Ephraim Katzir, the fourth President of Israel) shortly after I made Aliyah in 2005. I was just a bushy-tailed, bright-eyed American girl fresh off the boat and on an...