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NEW YORK (JTA) Fidler afn Dakh, the Yiddish adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof, closed on Jan. 5 after a wildly successful 11-month run off-Broadway and an equally successful seven-month stint at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
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admin | January 9, 2020
By:Masood Farivar For Democrats seeking to bolster their case for President Trumps removal from office, John Boltons testimony could be a game changer or a dud.
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admin | January 9, 2020
Last week, former Burg reporter Emma Schkloven and I shared some of the 2020 events were most looking forward to in the coming months. Those eight events were just a drop in the bucket of whats on its our way
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admin | January 9, 2020
This is not the aspirational fluff of Instagram wall neon; its fact. Recent surveys have shown that a majority of travelers consider food first when planning a trip, even ahead of where they sleep. Add to this that people are also traveling more than ever before earthlings logged a record-breaking 1.4 billion international trips last year and its safe to say that the hunger for new culinary experiences is more ravenous than ever.
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By Daniel Cipriani | January 09, 2020 I was born and grew up in Israel to Brooklynite parents who made aliyah, and I grew up knowing Hebrew and the chagim, but my immediate family was secular. After my parents divorced and I came to the States I began to get closer to Judaism and Jewish learning.
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admin | January 9, 2020
Becky Syrett, Operations Manager of the SSE Arena in London, expresses what surprised her most about hosting close to 7,000 at Englands Siyum Hashas. Full Story By COLlive staff A letter to the staff of the Siyum Hashas held this week in Londons Wembley Arena has been published in a newspaper expressing admiration to the organizers and the participants. In the letter shared on social media, Becky Syrett, Operations Manager of the SSE Arena in London, expressed her surprise and appreciation of the behavior of the close to 7,000 participants of the event marking the completion of the daily reading and study of one page of Talmud from the 2,711 set, which takes place every 7 years.
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admin | January 9, 2020
If ever there were a Gen X Jewish woman writer who made meaning out of the intimate details and dark forces that wreaked havoc on her life, it was Elizabeth Wurtzel. The author of Prozac Nation and More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction, Wurtzel died, far too young, on Tuesday from metastatic breast cancer; she was just 52.
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admin | January 9, 2020
There is a tendency among certain high-minded journalists to believe that when all sides take issue with their work, they must be doing something right. If no one is satisfied, the reasoning goes, then the piece must be onto something.
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In publishing The Secrets of Jewish Genius, anopinion pieceby regular columnist Bret Stephens, The New York Times demonstrated its commitment to free speech, at least for its stable of elite writers. That commitment means tolerating even the expression of extreme opinions that lack any solid foundation in reality
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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL The scene: A classroom in a building next to Jerusalems Great Synagogue. About twenty women in headscarves and wigs sit poring over texts. One, in the back row, is nursing an infant under a cover
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