Tweeting the Talmud – The Atlantic
admin | January 5, 2020
By the age of 46, however, I wanted to see the Talmuds breadth.
The wrong way to study the Talmud – Haaretz
admin | January 5, 2020
Tens of thousands of Jews in Israel and in Jewish communities worldwide will have something to celebrate this Shabbat: the completion of the latest daf yomi (daily page) cycle, during which the Talmud is read, one double page a day, over the course of seven-and-a-half years. The hype around the supposed intellectual achievement of reading through a work of 2,711 pages proves that the daf yomi has become a brand, with little attention being paid to the question of why the Talmud should be studied in the first place
Northeast Ohioans celebrate years of Talmud reading with 90,000 others – Cleveland Jewish News
admin | January 5, 2020
Among the 90,000 people who packed MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., Jan. 1 were more than 100 Clevelanders, some of whom finished reading the 2,711 pages of Talmud in as many days
Istanbul Jews fight to save their ancestral tongue – FRANCE 24
admin | January 5, 2020
Istanbul (AFP) If there's one thing Dora Beraha regrets in her twilight years, it is not passing on the 500-year-old language of Istanbul's Jews, Ladino, now on the point of extinction. "After us, will there still be people who speak this language?" says 90-year-old Beraha. "Surely, very few
Adam Sandler Oscar-worthy in ‘Uncut Gems’ | Arts & Features | jewishaz.com – Jewish News of Greater Phoenix
admin | January 5, 2020
Youve seen Chanukah-time Adam Sandler before but never like this.
Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato Visits Jewish Heritage Museum – Wave of Long Island
admin | January 5, 2020
Not long ago, Not far away By The Wave | on January 02, 2020 Courtesy of The Office of Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato This past month, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato and her team visited the Museum of Jewish Heritage, located in Battery Park City in Manhattan, New York City. The museum is recognized as a living memorial to those who perished in the Holocaust. Pheffer Amato was greeted by Jack Kliger, President & CEO of the Museum, who shared his familys own personal story of surviving the Holocaust.
Netflixs The Witcher: Real history can explain the shows central war – Polygon
admin | January 5, 2020
Hana Kraus and Walter Beer were young middle-class Jews living in the Central European state of Czechoslovakia when Nazi Germany invaded their country in 1939. In the ensuing years, the new genocidal regime robbed them of family and community, but they survived and came to the U.S., where they married and raised a family
I had unfinished business in Spain, going back 500 years – The Jewish News of Northern California
admin | January 4, 2020
Around 1492 my ancestors, the Papos, fled Iberia for the Middle East or southern Europe, along with hundreds of thousands of other Jews, in what became a vast Sephardic diaspora. Then, in the early 1800s, the Papo descendants moved to Jerusalem, thriving as rabbis and agronomists for more than a century, until World War I.
Istanbul Jews fight to save their ancestral tongue – The Jakarta Post – Jakarta Post
admin | January 4, 2020
If there's one thing Dora Beraha regrets in her twilight years, it is not passing on the 500-year-old language of Istanbul's Jews, Ladino, now on the point of extinction. "After us, will there still be people who speak this language?" says 90-year-old Beraha.
‘Uncut Gems’ Cuts Deep | Andy Blumenthal – The Times of Israel
admin | January 4, 2020
Yesterday, we went to see the new Adam Sandler movie, Uncut Gems. The movie is directed by Joshua and Benjamin Safdie, Sephardic Jews, and Adam Sandler, who is Jewish, plays Howard Ratner, a Jewish jewelry dealer in the famed NYC diamond district on east 47th street
