(JTA) — The music that packs the Skirball Cultural Center’s stately courtyard – Yiddish tango – is a musical hybrid twice over. On the tango side, it is a blend of African-born rhythms and a potpourri ...
For Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk, a Yiddish song heard on an interfaith trip to Auschwitz sparked a transformation. TEL AVIV — She’s a Catholic-born Polish woman now living as a Modern Orthodox Jew in ...
The Phoenix Yiddish Culture Festival returns on Dec. 4 for a second year. For four days, the festival will bring people ...
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Temple Beth El will present a Yiddish dance weekend featuring Bruce Bierman, celebrated dance instructor and teacher at the Stagebridge Theater Company in Oakland, Sept. 9 and 10. At 6 p.m. Sept. 9, ...
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Most academic symposia don’t offer a steady supply of cold beer and hot pirogi. Fewer still offer the chance to see Michael Alpert, frontman for the progressive klezmer band Brave Old World, dancing ...