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Hoping to improve your culinary skills while in quarantine? There’s an online Jewish food festival for you. Jewish culinary talents like Michael Solomonov, Joan Nathan and Michael Twitty are coming together for the inaugural Great Big Jewish Food Fest, a 10-day event that wraps up May 28. The free festival consists of workshops, happy hours […]
The coronavirus brought an audio recording of the Off-Broadway play “A Walk With Mr. Heifetz” to YouTube. James Inverne’s play is based on the true-life story of a 1926 visit by famed violinist Jascha Heifetz to British Mandatory Palestine, where he performed in a stone quarry at the Ein Harod kibbutz. After the concert, Heifetz […]
In the middle of the current coronavirus crisis, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has scheduled a Zoom speech of compelling contemporary relevance — on centuries-old Jewish legends. Gabriella Safran, a professor of Jewish studies at Stanford University and the author of 2010’s “Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk’s Creator, S. An-sky” (Harvard University Press), will speak […]