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Young, In Love, and Singing Torah, Appalachian-Style

Young, In Love, and Fiddling the Torah, Appalachian-Style

Montclair, New Jersey seems a world apart from Appalachia, the cradle of what’s known as “old-time” music. Yet, that’s where newlywed couple Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff combine old-time, bluegrass, and Americana music with their Jewish faith and tradition, as the duo Nefesh Mountain. Right now there’s just a handful of videos in which they […]

By Avishay Artsy

“You Killed My Jew, Now I’ve Killed Yours”: The Murder of Bruno Schulz

Bruno Schulz wasn’t just one of the 20th century’s greatest Polish-language literary stylists—fans know him well for his beautiful and surreal story collection The Street of Crocodiles—he was also a talented fine artist, as seen here in this self-portrait. Tragically, he died far too young. Sometimes referred to as the “Polish Kafka,” Schulz was […]

JDate to JSwipe: Gives Us Back Our “J”!

Gone are the days when yentes controlled our love lives. But that doesn’t mean dating among Jews has gotten any simpler. According to Forbes, JDate, the popular Jewish dating website (tagline: “Get Chosen®”) filed a lawsuit against JSwipe, a dating app known as “The Jewish Tinder.” The claim? JDate thinks JSwipe has stolen “intellectual property […]