JLTV’s Brad Pomerance introduces the first historical Jewish American Girl Doll, Rebecca Rubin.
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Jewish Holidays – Shavu’ot
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Shavu’ot, the Festival of Weeks, is the second of the three major festivals with both historical and agricultural significance (the other two are Passover and Sukkot). Agriculturally, it commemorates the time when the first fruits were harvested and brought to the Temple, and is known as Hag ha-Bikkurim (the Festival of the First Fruits). Historically, it celebrates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, and is also known as Hag Matan Torateinu (the Festival of the Giving of Our Torah).
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CBS to air movie on ‘courageous’ Polish Catholic who rescued Jewish children
New York City, N.Y., Apr 18, 2009 / 12:58 pm (CNA).- On Sunday evening CBS will broadcast a movie about the heroic efforts and courageous heart of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker who created and led an underground group that rescued Jewish children from Nazi persecution. Sendler created and led a conspiracy of women who moved in and out of Warsaws Jewish Ghetto disguised as nurses. While saying that they were simply to prevent and contain the spread of Typhus and Spotted Fever, Sendler and her companions helped the children of consenting Jewish parents escape imminent deportation to death camps, CBS’ website says.
The children were sometimes sedated and hidden inside boxes, suitcases and coffins to escape the ghetto. They were given new identities and placed with Polish families and in convents.
Sendler kept a hidden record of the childrens birth names and locations in hopes that they could be reunited with their families. About 2,500 children were smuggled to safety, with none being discovered by the Nazis.
After the Nazis discovered her operation in 1943, Sendler was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo, who broke her feet. On the day of her execution, she was rescued by the underground network Zegota, with which she had worked to save Jewish children.
She kept a Divine Mercy holy card from her prison cell until 1979, when she gave the card to Pope John Paul II as a gift.
CBS will broadcast The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, on Sunday, April 19 at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. It will star Anna Paquin as Irena while her mother will be played by Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden.
Nathaniel Parker will play the role of Dr. Majkowski, the head of Warsaws Department of Health who helped Sendlers operation. Goran Visnjic will play Stefan, a Jewish university friend of Sendler with whom she fell in love when she began her underground operation.
The movie is based on Sendlers authorized biography, Anna Mieszkowskas 2005 book Mother of the Children of the Holocaust: The Irena Sendler Story.
Sendler was granted the title Righteous among the Nations by the organization Yad Vashem of Jerusalem in 1965 and was nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize. She died on May 12, 2008 at the age of 98.
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Jewish Music Kol Haolam Kulo
Kol Haolam Kulo – The world famous song attributed to Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. Here Rabbi Danny Bergson and Rabbi Mitch Goodman have arranged and performed this emotional song with their usual style and ability and distinctive sound. This is the new face of jewish music! This is Music & Joy!
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3 Things & the power of nigun Jewish Torah
3 Things & the power of a nigun ( Jewish Torah by Rebbe Moshe Reb Moshe of Safed www.torahvideo.com
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Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad
“Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad” is a refreshing mix of comedy, music, spoken-word and show-stopping burlesque, told by the gals who learned to smoke at Hebrew School, got drunk at their Bat-Mitzvahs and would rather have more schtuppa than the chupah, featuring performers seen on Comedy Central, HBO and MTV. These badass chosen chicks boldly dare to
deconstruct years of tradition, expectations and guilt in a fast-paced vaudeville extravaganza, complete with kick lines, punchlines and a rendition of “L’chaim” with a fist in the mouth. This ain’t yo’ mama’s “Fiddler”!
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Jewish Holiday – Chanukkah
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Chanukkah, the Jewish festival of re-dedication, also known as the festival of lights, is an eight day festival beginning on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev.
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Jewish Holocaust Survivor Short Film SBIFF 2010
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Guest Host Santa Barbara Arts TV Sophia from London Interviews Selected 25th Anniv Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2010 Filmmaker of Jewish Holocaust Survivor Short Film SBIFF 2010 Leather Jude’ is a documentary about Jewish Holocaust survivor Hans Biglajzer and the significance of his craft as a saddle maker.
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Favorite Jewish Artists: Itzchak Tarkay
Itzchak Tarkay is another of my favorite jewish artists. Born in Northern Serbia in 1935, he was only nine years old when the Nazis sent him to the Mathausen concentration camp. After the war, he returned home and developed an interest in art. He immigrated to Israel in 1949 and soon began to study in the Bezalel Art Academy. His colorful paintings of women have become extremely popular in recent years. It is said that Tarkay always paints his women with their eyes cast down as his way of honoring those who did not survive the Nazi camps.
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Lisa Fishman – “Dona Dona”
This is a performance I did of the Yiddish classic, “Dona Dona,” on the ‘jewish entertainment Hour,’ a cable show broadcast out of New York City, in 2001.
I grew up singing the ENGLISH version made popular by Joan Baez at summer camp. It wasn’t until I was an adult and discovered Eastern European jewish music (= often referred to as “Klezmer” music) and started studying Yiddish that I learned that the song was actually originally written in Yiddish for the Yiddish Theatre.
Accompanying me on piano is New York’s AMAZING pianist, arranger, composer, and musical director, Alex Rybeck.
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More from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
“Donna Donna” (דאָנאַ דאָנאַ “Dana Dana”, דאָס קעלבל “Dos Kelbl”) was a very popular song in America, and also in a number of other countries, for example, in Japan it has long been sung in schools.
History
The song was written as “Dana Dana” in Yiddish, for the musical play “Esterke” (1940-1941); words written by Aaron Zeitlin, music written by Sholom Secunda. Both of them were Jews, and the song was written in days of Nazism. The song was prohibited in South Korea as a communist song [1].
The first translation into English was made by Secunda himself but did not become popular. The song in English became well known as “Donna Donna” when it was translated approximately in 1956 by Arthur Kevess and Teddi Schwartz. The song became especially popular after the performance of Joan Baez in 1960 and Donovan in 1965, and was even featured on “More Chad & Jeremy”, a Capitol Records compilation of standards sung by the British duo.
The song has been translated into many other languages including German, French, Japanese, Hebrew, and Russian.
The song has been sung by many singers including André Zweig, Joan Baez, Donovan, Chava Alberstein, Esther Ofarim, Theodore Bikel, Karsten Troyke, Hélène Rollès in duet with Dorothée, Claude François, and Russian ensemble of the Jewish songs on Yiddish “Dona”.
Lisa Fishman also commands an amazing opera version aired on the Jewish Entertainment Hour, which is a cable show broadcast out of New York City, in 2001. It can also be found on the soundtrack to the anime “Revolutionary Girl Utena”.
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PS: To all Yiddish speakers: I am aware of my lyric flub in verse 2 — It was a live performance and I momentarily blanked!
PPS: I didn’t know until just now when I copied and pasted the ‘Wikipedia’ article that my performance is actually mentioned in their piece — wow!
PPPS: THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who has posted their sweet and informative comments here! — I SO appreciate it!
warmly,
lisa
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