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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

Jon Kalish

Nathan "Chinga" Chavin, right, and Kinky Friedman perform together in an undated photo. (Courtesy Brandi Chavin via JTA)
March 28, 2023, 6:49 am
Nathan Chavin, Jewish ad exec who wrote raunchy country western hit, dies at 78
His 1976 album ‘Country Porn’ sold more than 100,000 copies, and included minor hit, ‘Asshole from El Paso,’ a parody of Merle Haggard’s 1969 song ‘Okie from Muskogee’
By Jon Kalish
Fraidy Reiss is the founder and executive director of Unchained At Last, a non-profit that’s been battling arranged and forced marriages for the past 12 years. (Photo copyright Susan Landman via JTA)
March 24, 2023, 4:23 am
A fake reality show trailer shines light on the real issue of US child marriage
Founded by a former Haredi woman, the organization Unchained at Last releases ‘Unseen Housewives’ to raise awareness that such arrangements are still legal in 43 states
By Jon Kalish
Clarinet virtuoso Michael Winograd will lead the first-ever live performance of 'Tanz,' a klezmer record that bombed on its release in 1956. Over the decades, it has come to be seen as groundbreaking. (Winograd photo by Lloyd Wolf via JTA)
February 21, 2023, 3:45 am
Too pioneering for its own good, 1955 klezmer album finally gets debut performance
Celebrated in later decades by top musicians but largely ignored in its own time, virtuoso album ‘Tanz’ was played by an all-star ensemble last week on NYC’s Upper West Side
By Jon Kalish
Mikhl Yashinsky, right, in a scene from 'The Sorceress,' by New York's The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. (Courtesy)
January 18, 2023, 2:58 am
This 30-something New Yorker doesn’t need a crystal ball to see a Yiddish revival
Performer and educator Mikhl Yashinsky is bringing the ‘always dying’ language out of the yeshiva and back into the limelight
By Jon Kalish
Alan Geik's family's close ties to Jewish gangsters are chronicled in a just-published memoir, 'Uncle Charlie Killed Dutch Schultz.' (Sonador Publishing via JTA)
January 10, 2023, 5:09 pm
Kosher nostra: New memoir details a New York Jewish family’s crime ties
In ‘Uncle Charlie Killed Dutch Schultz,’ author Alan Geik tells about ‘heimishe’ first-generation US Jews bootlegging, running gambling rackets and committing the occasional murder
By Jon Kalish
Yehuda and Breindy Gelbfish of Lakewood, New Jersey, who visited the Amud Aish Memorial Museum recently with four of their 10 children, loaned a number of items that belonged to Yehuda's father Benjamin, a Lublin Yeshiva student who fled to Vilna, Lithuania. (Jon Kalish/via JTA)
April 10, 2018, 7:33 pm
A Holocaust museum in Brooklyn tells the story through the eyes of Orthodox Jews
The dynamics of the genocide’s impact on religious belief and Orthodox rescue efforts are among the topics covered at New York’s Amud Aish Memorial Museum
By Jon Kalish
The main gate of the former Auschwitz extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, with the infamous sign reading 'Work sets you free.' (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images/via JTA)
December 17, 2017, 5:49 pm
Is Auschwitz ready for a peace center? A Vermont woman thinks so
Adjacent to the death camp’s gates, Nina Meyerhof aims to build a City of Hope to carry forward the grim experience and ‘make a difference in life’
By Jon Kalish
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