Ashkenazim—Jews of European origin—are Israel’s “white folks.” And like most white folks in a multicultural society, they see themselves as the social norm and don’t think of themselves in racial or ...

The mission of Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center is to build community and understanding of the world's cultures by presenting concerts and classes in participatory dance and music rooted in ...

This 1491 map is the best surviving map of the world as Christopher Columbus knew it as he made his first voyage across the Atlantic. In fact, Columbus likely used a copy of it in planning his journey ...

More important is how the tefillah experience moves them. Many join a particular synagogue because the tefillah there is serious, inspiring and friendly. The gaon Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, posits (in ...

A Benefit with Ballads and Bubbles: Guests will enjoy an evening of cocktails, a seated dinner, silent and live auctions and live entertainment by the Righteous Brothers, Bill Medley and Bucky Heard ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

This vintage house of worship doesn’t have a prayer. The site of a former century-old synagogue for Ukrainian immigrants in the East Village is set to be torn down to make room for six trendy condos — ...

This paper identifies modern Yiddish intonation patterns for three different semantic structures and contends that they derive from modern (Ashkenazic) talmudic chant. An examination of the ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Jewish History, Vol. 34, No. 1/3, Special Issue: Sefer Hasidim: Book, Context, and Afterlife. Studies in Honor of Ivan G. Marcus (June 2021), pp. 53-81 (29 pages) The present study interprets and ...