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Sunday, July 6, 2025

A Sermon for Zionism in Belfast

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     In the early years of Rabbi Gedaliah Silverstone's rabbinic career, he worked as the rabbi in Belfast. In Belfast he published his ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

A Generation Comes and A Generation Goes

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Correction:  After attending a presentation at the NYPL on their Yiddish sheet music collections, I learned that Pinchos Jassinowsky was not...
Sunday, February 2, 2025

A Description of the Mission of RIETS from 1900

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יודישע גאזעטען, 29 יוני 1900 דיא צוקונפט פון יודענטהום עס איז געװען א צײט ווען אידען האבּען בּעטראַכט אַמעריקא פאַר אַ סטאַנציע דורךְ װעלכער...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Rabbi Gedaliah Silverstone's Sermon Against Family Pews in Adas Israel

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Rabbi Gedaliah Silverstone was a leader of the Orthodox Jewish community of Washington, DC in the first half of the 20th century. He was bro...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

The Immoral Message of the Film 'East and West' (1923)

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I have recently watched the 1923 silent Yiddish film East and West . You can find it on YouTube with bilingual title cards. The premise of ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Bais Yaakov School of Washington, DC

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The Orthodox Jewish community of the Greater Washington, DC area does not have a Bais Yaakov school. This lack of a Bais Yaakov high sc...
Wednesday, December 25, 2024

An Index of Classic Yiddish Cinema

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This is an unofficial list of classic Yiddish movies based on the catalog of the National Center for Jewish Film.  1909 – The Yiddisher Boy ...