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Tevye From Fiddler Back With Bikel

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 12.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Fiddler on the Roof, Pale of Settlement, Lower East Side, Diaspora, Sholom Aleichem, Tevye the Milkman, Theodore Bikel, Yiddish, New York News
Thane Rosenbaum

Major League Baseball may have its Cal Ripken; but fans of Fiddler on the Roof know of only one Theodore Bikel, the ironman actor.

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Tantalizing Tunes: A Fall Handful of Hit Performances

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: My Fair Lady, Shalom-Aleichem, Musical Theater, Opera, Oklahoma!, Broadway, Madama Butterfly, Orchestra, Camelot, Yiddish, Musicals, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, The Sound of Music, Roy Thomson Hall, Opera Singing, Canadian Opera Company, Tchaikovsky, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Canada, Entertainment News
Marissa Bronfman

From Tchaikovsky to Broadway, Butterfly to Frankie Valli and Shalom, Toronto is truly alive with The Sound of Music!

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Leaked Ahmadinejad Diary Proves Iran Prez Is Jewish

Katie Halper | Posted 10.08.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Leaked Diary, Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Iran, Yiddish, Bob Dylan, The Forced War, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, David Irving, Achmadinejad, Holocaust Deniers, Jewish, The Holocaust, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, David Hoggan, Achmadinejad Jewish, Joni Mitchel, Ahmadinejad, Shalom Aleichem, Comedy News
Katie Halper

I attended Camp Havanagila, a Zionist summer camp in the Catskill Mountains, when I was young, and so, it seems, did Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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How Do You Make a Writer Kvetch?

Michael Wex | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Writers, Kvetch, Authors, Books, Alice Munro, Yiddish, Munro, Kvetching, Books News
Michael Wex

I don't complain because I'm unhappy. Writers in general don't seem to complain any more than musicians or painters or any other group of free-lance workers, they just tend to do it better.

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When Being Jewish is Enough

Tamar Abrams | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Jews, Religion, Germany, Judaism, Bible, Hebrew, Christianity, Yiddish, Newfoundland, Tikkun Olam, Conversion, Mezzuzah, Living News
Tamar Abrams

In the past several weeks, I've opened my front door to well-dressed people -- men and women, Black and white -- whose sole purpose seemed to be to talk to me about Jesus.

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Chutzpah and cheaters partner to keep American tire workers unemployed

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Fair Trade, U.S. Embassy, Free Trade, Usw, United Steelworkers, American Omni Trading Co., China, Foreign Tire Sales, Chinese Tires, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, People’s Daily, Date Rape Drug, Section 421 Case, Orteck Global Supply & Distribution Co., Hercules Tire & Rubber Co., Trade, Melamine, U.S. Congress, Del-Nat Tire Corp., Aqua Dots, Itc, Chutzpah Coalition, International Trade Commission, Dunlap & Kyle Co., Yiddish, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

A group of tire importers that should be competitors banded together recently to ally themselves with China in a trade case. Doesn't sound like th...

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Yiddish Culture Day Marked In Israeli Parliament

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Yiddish Culture Day, Yiddish, Yiddish Culture, Israeli Parliament, Israeli Parliament Yiddish, Jews, Jewish Diaspora, World News

JERUSALEM — Oy Gevalt! Yiddish has been uttered in the Israeli parliament! Long disparaged in Hebrew-speaking Israel as the native tongue of Di...

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Jason Linkins

Bernard Goldberg: Dictionaries Have A 'Liberal' Bias

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill O'Reilly, Yiddish, Bernard Goldberg, Jackie Mason, Barack Obama, Politics News

On the March 17th edition of The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly and author Bernard Goldberg ventured a discussion of whether or not the Yiddish w...

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