By Michael Fox , Special to JTNews The pioneering Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem was born in a shtetl in the middle of the 19th century, and even t
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By Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf, other Toronto filmmaker Naomi Jaye is set to produce Canada’s — and possibly North America’s — first Yiddish fe
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By Michael Fox, Special to JTNews The astonishingly cheeky French screwball comedy The Names of Love willfully takes on the most sensitive issues f
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By Corey Salka , Special to JTNews "What God is trying to do with this world is to figure out who he is through us," music sensation Matisyahu tol
Read MoreBy Dvora Meyers, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—Late last year, I spent the better part of a month working on a lengthy profile on Amy
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews A funny thing happened while I was reading David Bezmozgis’s new novel The Free World (Farrar, Straus, Giro
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews When Michele Yanow and Mary Pat Graham heard Kol Dodi, the Metro-West Jewish Community Chorale of New Jersey perf
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By Herb Krohn, Special to JTNews The Seattle International Film Festival is underway through Sunday, June 12, 2011. Information and tickets can be
Read MoreBy Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Four years ago, during an interview with JTNews while waiting for the post office to finally deliver the boxes fi
Read MoreBy Gigi Yellen, JTNews Correspondent June 18 marks the Seattle Symphony’s last performance with Gerard Schwarz conducting as music director.
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews When Music of Remembrance commissioned Betty Olivero to write a piece for this year’s spring concert, they
Read MoreAgain, our Jewish calendar sets our people’s history into bold contrast. Passover’s triumphant exodus story is followed swiftly by Yom HaS
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A funny thing happened to Daniel Alpern as his life began to crumble following the death of his father last year. He began to talk to God and to his r
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"Why did you leave me? Why can’t you come back for me?" Dilawar, a young, unemployed Kashmiri Muslim, is praying, as he does after each of his
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The pain is physical, it’s emotional, and it’s constant as Ora and Avram hike Israel’s northernmost reaches. But it’s impossib
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NEW YORK (JTA) — With all the restrictions, are decent desserts even possible during Passover? "My particular talent is working around restriction,"
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When the Price girls show up at their parents’ house for Passover, their mother Lilly opens the door and laments, "You’re early! You’
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