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Today is Tisha B’Av, a day of mourning for Jews. On this ninth day of the Month of Av, terrible things have befallen us throughout history. Both Temples on Har HaBayit were destroyed. We were expelled from Spain. World War One started. The Klehmnitsky massacres. rumor has it that […]
Sunday afternoon, having shlepped all over Lakeview looking at apartments, I stopped into Borders for coffee. A Compay Segundo tune is playing in the background, but a minute later a new one starts and this tune is in an odd key, a balkan or turkish rhythm. Its catchy and somehow familiar with […]
A whole lot of people are making a big deal about Willy Schwartz’s “Welt Musiker” Immigrant Orgchestra participation in today’s Millenium Park unveling. 2 feature artciles. I heard them on WBEZ’s July 4th program- they played one Yiddish tune. He’s a big figure in Klezmer music in Germany (whee Klezmer is bigger […]
In honor of Shabbat and the Cubs victory last night, but i nlieu of a celebration during the 3 weeks, JewishFringe gives you The Kosher Top 10, as orignially posted at www.Bangitout.com
Top Ten signs you are a Jewish Cubs Fan
by Shlomo Hubscher, Tel Aviv, Israel
10. One morning, your name is Steve Bartman, a good Jewish […]
Late as they may be, Comedy Central gets on the Sheitl controversy. Very funny. View the video here (tug of tzitzis to: Jewschool)
Writer/Chicago Reader contributor Adam Langer’s new book, “Crossing California” is getting traction. If you remember going to the Bagel on Devon as a kid, or wandering EAST of California Ave. and still being in the Jewish part of town, this is nostalgic read for you. If you can’t remember a time when Orthodox Jews dominated […]
It’s his 100th. The only Nobel Laureate to write in Yiddish, America’s best known Yiddish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, arrived in NY in 1935 from Warsaw, hoping to be a writer for the Forward (back then, it was a powerhouse ethnic daily whose circulation reached 275,000). He’d already published a book, but he […]
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I am very wise, humble and pious…
From this day forward I will be known as the holy Reb Yomtov Shimche Davis of Karavaev, also known as the ‘BadaBinger Rebbe’…
Bada BING! Gut Shabadabingbes!
I don’t know how many people have been following the slow transformation of the worlds biggest pop star into a walking advertisement for the Jewish faith. A lot of people think the whole Kabbalah thing is a fad at best and a cult at worst, but what’s it mean when Madonna (aka Esther) keeps […]
I’m very excited to announce this. It’s the 2 year anniversary of KFAR programming, so you betta be there. Its also Tu B’Av, and mystical magical things happen on Tu B’Av. And its my Hebrew Birthday. SO BE THERE!~
