Not your grandfather's internet: False 'quotes' travel far due to 'anything goes" mindset
This is not your grandfather's internet: In 2003, a witty writer named Jonathan Rauch penned an essay about introverts for The Atlantic magazine in Boston...
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Making Musical Connections, 2012-style
While the brochures are getting ready for their long journey to your mail box, tickets to all BJMF events are now on sale. And while...
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Arts & Culture
Shminklending
Shminklending. Rhymes with Finklending. It’s a word in “Hanukkah Likhtelekh,” a song we sing in Koleinu. I was taught to know the meaning of every...
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Make A Bubbe Proud: Come to Pincus and the Pig
The blog DirtyWater featured nice piece about the special presentation of Maurice Sendak's Pincus and The Pig. If you ever enjoyed Peter and the Wolf,...
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Kids & Parenting
Yiddish and 'Deep Ashkenaz'
- by Shayn Smulyan I'm not going to write you one of those pieces about Yiddish. You know the kind I mean. The kind that...
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To Make a Tsimmes or Not to Make a Tsimmes, That is the High Holiday Question !
With Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur right around the corner I thought I would turn my attention to two of my favorite aspects of Jewish...
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Judaism & Spirituality
The Mystery of the Yiddish Chicken
I have occasionally written here about my love for both the natural world and for Yiddish language and culture, but up until now I haven’t...
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Interview with Kevin Rice, Creative Director of the Yiddish Theatre and Klezmer Music Festival.
Kevin Rice, Creative Director of the Payomet Performing Arts Center, and the driving force behind the Yiddish Theatre and Klezmer Music Festival on Cape Cod,...
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VIDEOS: The Other Europeans Bring Unique Meld of Klezmer & Lautari Music to Boston
The Other Europeans Band is an international gathering of 14 leading klezmer (Yiddish) and lautari (Roma) musicians. Created and directed by Alan Bern, this new...
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Yiddish Language Offers A Link
As I noted in a previous post on this website, I am presently reading Michael Wex’s book on the Yiddish language, Born To Kvetch. As...
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Judaism & Spirituality
