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Forward On Father's Day, remembering the daughter I lost twice 13 Jun 2025
Reflecting on the profound loss of his daughter Meleia, Jon Kalish recounts his struggles with faith, identity, and memory on Father's Day. Despite the separ...
13 Jun 2025
Forward Even the Holocaust could not silence the music of these composers 24 Apr 2025
Jeanne Golan, a New York pianist, has dedicated the past 15 years to the 'recovered voices' movement, recording music by composers persecuted by the Nazis. H...
24 Apr 2025
JTA After fighting cancer, klezmer legend Frank London is busier than ever before 18 Feb 2025
Frank London, a seminal figure in Jewish music known for his work with The Klezmatics, has returned to the music scene with renewed fervor following a battle...
18 Feb 2025
Forward For Finland's tiny Jewish community, a complicated history of fighting for the czar and the Nazis 24 Jan 2025
Finland's Jewish community, numbering about 1,500 today, traces its roots to Russian military conscripts in the 1850s. Historically integrated yet distinct, ...
24 Jan 2025
JTA A.J. Weberman, famous for picking through Bob Dylan’s trash, shares his thoughts on ‘A Complete Unknown’ 9 Jan 2025
A.J. Weberman, renowned for his controversial pursuit of Bob Dylan's personal insights through dumpster diving, shares his critical views on the new biopic "...
9 Jan 2025
Forward How a son of Holocaust survivors joined a commune and helped to free 'Hurricane' Carter 19 Nov 2024
Sam Chaiton's memoir, "We Used to Dream of Freedom," weaves together the narratives of growing up as the child of Holocaust survivors and his role in the eff...
19 Nov 2024
JTA How the NY Public Library acquired a ‘treasure trove’ of Jewish and Yiddish music 11 Nov 2024
The New York Public Library's Dorot Jewish Division has acquired a significant collection of 4,000 pieces of Jewish and Yiddish music, including cantorial mu...
11 Nov 2024
JTA How ‘uptown’ Jews fought to clean up the criminal underworld of the Lower East Side 5 Sep 2024
In his new book, "The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld," author Dan Slater explores the effo...
5 Sep 2024
JTA Meet the New Yorker tracing the 300-year history of the Twersky rabbinical dynasty, from Chernobyl to the Bronx 13 Aug 2024
Yitzchak Meyer Twersky, an IT specialist from Queens and an authority on the Twersky rabbinical dynasty, released a comprehensive book tracing the 300-year h...
13 Aug 2024
JTA The Jewish mother who became a crime boss in Gilded Age New York 9 Jul 2024
Fredericka Mandelbaum, a Jewish immigrant in 19th-century New York, transitioned from an impoverished street peddler to overseeing America's first major orga...
9 Jul 2024