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“This American Life” Goes Israeli

August 16, 2013
By
sipur-israeli

A story about a classical composer who, after sustaining a brain injury, had to teach herself how to listen to music again. A man standing by the side of the road in Europe with a sign saying: “Anywhere.” If these sound like segments from the wildly popular National Public Radio…

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The Sage and the Bathhouse

August 15, 2013
By
bathhouse

Q: What’s worse than a rabbinic sage frequenting a den of public nudity and sex adorned with…

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Roaming Europe in Search of Yiddish Joy

August 14, 2013
By
helix

To hear some people tell it, you’d think Jewish history was one long calamity: the Spanish…

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An American Folksinger With A Hasidic Twist

August 13, 2013
By
levi-robin1

When you first listen to Levi Robin‘s tender, breathy…

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Niels Bohr, The Righteous Physicist

August 12, 2013
By
bohr

Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr…

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WTF Just Happened to “Oyfn Pripetchik”?

August 9, 2013
By
psoy

Meet Psoy Korolenko, the self-described “wandering philologist”and song-tinkerer…

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Java’s Last Shul and the World’s Tallest Menorah

August 8, 2013
By
menorah

Until recently, the city of Surabaya, on the Indonesian…

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The Jewish Salami War

August 7, 2013
By
send-a-salami-to-your-boy

Although keeping kosher was not a priority for most of…

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The Nazi-Hunter Who Might Secretly Be A Jew

August 6, 2013
By
wolfenstein

The 1992 video game Wolfenstein 3D was the first “1st-person…

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Urban Jazz Metal Like The Rebbe Sang It

August 5, 2013
By
deveykus

The Alter Rebbe was the founding father of the Lubavitch…

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Little Prince George and The Mohel of the Royals

August 2, 2013
By
royal-baby

What do you get a royal schmuck? A royal mohel,…

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The First Jewish Boxer

August 1, 2013
By
mendoza2

Many of us know that Jews were a…

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