Lynne Meadow, artistic Dir. Manhattan Theatre Club and 23-time Tony winner, discusses the challenges and joys of being a woman in theater and a woman who is passionate about her Jewishness. With Molly MacDermot at Congregation Rodeph Sholom, NYC.
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Learn about the oldest synagogue in the United States and the only synagogue from America’s Colonial Period from docent Lew Keen and Rabbi Marc Mandel of the synagogue’s Congregation Jeshuat Israel. With Mark S. Golub
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American Jewish Historian Jonathan Sarna provides an historical perspective on antisemitism in America and outlines the challenges presented by antisemitic propaganda in today’s United States. From Limmud NY 2018, Princeton, NJ.
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Gil Hovav, culinary journalist, food critic, & television personality discusses growing up eating food in Israel, being a food critic and author, and wartime cooking in Jerusalem. This event was held at NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies.
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Zvi Gitelman, Prof. of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, discusses the various ways in which nationality and religion are used to describe Jews in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. From Limmud FSU 2017 at the Hilton Westchester.
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At the Limmud FSU 2017 conference, folk Music Scholar and Musician Zisl Slepovitch discusses how Jews and Non-Jews of Eastern Europe characterized each other through humor and folk music. From the Hilton Westchester in Rye Brook, NY.
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Award-winning authors Matti Friedman and Nicole Krauss discuss their respective approaches to writing about Israel out of a devotion to the Jewish State. By The Jewish Week and Central Synagogue of NYC.
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U.N. Amb. Danny Danon, Alan Dershowitz, Malcolm Hoenlein, Ruth Wisse, Russell Robinson, Shahar Azani, Tovah Feldshuh, and Brooke Goldstein join in JBS’s celebration of Israel’s 69th birthday hosted by Mark S. Golub with Thane Rosenbaum and Israel’s “Ambassador of Song’ Ron Eliran.
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Singer/Songwriter Daniel Kahn, Painted Bird, a leading figure in the Klezmer revival movement, performs Yiddish songs, cabaret, and punk folk music. With Jake Shulman-Ment and Psoy Korolenko, a program of KulturfestNYC 2015 from Joe’s Pub in NYC.
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JBS premieres its new series “A Touch Away, this Tuesday at 10PM. A Touch Away is a story of forbidden love and secrets when a secular Jewish family from Russia moves in next to a Haredi family – and their daughter, about to be part of an arranged marriage, falls in love with the charismatic […]
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