Readers who have seen "Fiddler on the Roof" will recognize the background of "Wandering Stars" : a Jewish community in a Russian village of a century ago, practicing its faith, traditions and language ...

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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

Readers who have seen "Fiddler on the Roof" will recognize the background of "Wandering Stars": a Jewish community in a Russian village of a century ago, practicing its faith, traditions and language ...

A century has passed since the death of Shalom Aleichem (Shalom Rabinowitz 1859-1916), the brilliant writer who brought the shtetl to life with warmth, wry love, realism and an insider's knowledge of ...

Tonight at the Barbican's Pit, kicking off a run of ten performances, a rather unusual piece of theatre opens. It's not a big play, it probably won't make great waves and it does involve reading ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “Let me tell you a story,” beckons the voice of narrator Alan Rosenberg (TV’s “Harry’s Law”), ...

Her songs and soul always felt timeless, often joyful, her contributions to the liturgy are everpresent, and yet the fact of Debbie Friedman’s passing one year ago, January, remains painful and ...