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0 Music Culture

This New Yiddish Kids’ Album Is Magical

Lior Zaltzman in Kveller · 28 Nov 2025

Jordan Wax has released "Pantakozak and Other New Yiddish Songs for Kids," an innovative children's album that celebrates Yiddish culture through music and storytelling.

0 Politics Culture

Annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage in Ukraine is clouded by arrests of yeshiva students in Israel

Theia Chatelle in Forward · 22 Sep 2025

The annual pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman of Breslov's tomb in Uman, Ukraine, during Rosh Hashanah, is overshadowed by the Israeli government's arrest of over 100 haredi Orthodox men avoiding military service.

0 Culture Politics

The “Elul, Baby!” Edition

Promised Podcast · 28 Aug 2025

Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss Benny Gantz's contentious proposal for a "Government of Hostage Redemption" in Israel and the revival of the army unit known for cultivating Kibbutzim and Moshavim.

0 Literature History

This Hanukkah, a new children’s book shares the true story of a young boy who kept the light on in his shtetl

The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner · 25 Dec 2024

Sheila Baslaw, at the age of 92, has co-authored a children's book, "The Light Keeper," with Karen Levine, highlighting the true story of Baslaw's father, Samuel Saslove, who maintained the electric street lights in his shtetl in Ukraine.

0 History Culture

The Miracle Petek

Cindy Scarr in Mishpacha · 12 Nov 2024

Rabbi Yisrael Ber Odesser, a devoted follower of Breslov chassidus, claimed to have found a mystical note, or "petek," in 1922 believed to be from Rebbe Nachman, sparking much debate.

0 Television/Film Culture

Frederick Wiseman Is Here

Sean Cooper in Tablet · 13 Sep 2017

Frederick Wiseman, a pioneering documentary filmmaker, is renowned for his in-depth explorations of American institutions, capturing the subtleties of power dynamics without commentary or narrative intrusion.

0 Communities Prayer

Despite Unrest, Hasidim Head to Ukraine

Kelsey Osgood in Tablet · 22 Sep 2014

Breslov Hasidim annually travel to Uman, Ukraine for Rosh Hashanah to pray at Rebbe Nachman's grave, fostering a vibrant religious pilgrimage.