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‘Celebrating Yiddish’ concert featuring Cantor Shira Ginsburg is set for ‘The Linda, on June 5
Ne’imah Jewish Community Chorus will perform its 19th annual concert “Celebrating Yiddish” at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, June 5, at the Linda Norris Auditorium, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio, 318 Central Ave.
Ne’imah’s guest performer will be Cantor Shira Ginsburg (left) from the East End Temple in New York City. She is a graduate of the Hebrew Academy [...]
Posted in Arts & Culture, Blog, Organizations, Religion & Philosophy
Tagged Capital District, Central Ave, concert, Debbie Friedman, East End, hebrew union college, imah, israeli composers, Judith Ginsburg, Linda Norris Auditorium, New York, New York City, Shira Ginsburg, singer song writer, TROY
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Tweaking tradition: Online project modernizing Jewish texts with today’s lingo
MORGAN FRIEDMAN, relies on crowd-sourcing to translate Jewish texts into modern English vernacular.
By SUE FISHKOFF
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)–Morgan Friedman loves the way people talk. He wants others to love it, too.
The 35-year-old social media entrepreneur, formerly of Brooklyn, and now living in Buenos Aires, launches new digital projects like marshmallows from an air gun.
Pow! Here’s Overheardinnewyork.com, [...]
Farmer, rabbi and maple syrup maker, Shmuel Simenowitz melds Torah and environmentalism
RABBI SHMUEL SIMENOWITZ outside his Readsboro, Vt. sugarhouse, a replica of an 18th-century synagogue.
By SUE FISHKOFF
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)–It’s easy to spot Rabbi Shmuel Simenowitz at a Jewish food conference, an environmentalist gathering or any of the other progressive-minded confabs he frequents.
Just look for the Chasid in the room.
Simenowitz is an anomaly: a haredi Orthodox Jew, [...]
Posted in Blog, Religion & Philosophy
Tagged Baltimore, Don, farm, God, intellectual property lawyer, Long Island, maple, New York, Oprah Winfrey, rabbi shmuel, Rabbi Simenowitz, readsboro vermont, San Francisco, Shlomo, Simenowitz, SUE FISHKOFF, Torah, Torah Jew, Vermont, Vt.
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Should frozen sperm be used to create posthumous grandchildren?
By MICHELLE GOLDBERG
NEW YORK CITY (Tablet)–Last fall, 27-year-old Ohad Ben-Yaakov was injured in an accident at his part-time job, and he died after two weeks in a coma. Ben-Yaakov wasn’t married, nor was he in a relationship. No woman was pregnant with his child.
Nevertheless, his devastated parents believe it’s not too late for them to [...]
Escaping the box: 18 minutes to Passover freedom
By EDMON J. RODMAN
LOS ANGELES (JTA)–In every generation, the Haggadah tells us, the wise, the simple, the non-askers and even the baddies are obligated to see themselves as though they themselves actually had come out from Egypt. Unfortunately, the closest many of us come to this ideal is a stroll through the Passover aisle of [...]
