Interview with Kike Like Me director Jamie Kastner
Jamie Kastner’s film Kike Like Me explores Jewish identity in the 21st Century - and pulls very few punches in the process. Get a flavour of the film from the man himself.
BBC Four: Jamie, the film forces the audience to confront its own feelings about Jewish people, […]
The songs of 20-year-old Eliyahu Faizkov, a yeshiva student from Netanya, were recently banned by haredi pirate radio stations because his voice is uncannily feminine.”At first my songs were received positively by the haredi radio stations,” Faizkov told the Ynet Web site. “But I suddenly noticed that they stopped playing my songs. It was as […]
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Last Friday, Gertel’s Bakery—the most-loved of the Lower East Side’s three remaining kosher bakeries—permanently closed its doors, after 90 years in business. Joanna Smith Rakoff, the editor of Nextbook.org and a longtime consumer of Gertel’s prune danishes, talked to the shop’s final customers about rugelach, “water challah,” and the past and future of a neighborhood […]
“The reason a lot of us came to live in Monsey is because we wanted to raise our families in a safe place, away from the influences of the outside world,” said Yossi Weinberger, 30, a father of four who works at a local travel agency. “I’m not sure it will be easy to do […]
This past Tuesday was the 13th anniversary of the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Chasidim do not always feel comfortable using the word yahrzeit because it infers that the Rebbe is totally gone from the world. We have a tradition that a tzadik is alive even after his passing, since the positive actions he accomplished […]
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D owntrodden by betrayal and reversals of fortune, Alex Winner never imagined a 2000-year-old Jewish book would bolster his spirits. Two years ago, a concerned friend lugged Winner to Lubavitch World Headquarters, during the High Holidays. “He said I could pray, put on tefillin, give charity, and maybe I’d feel better,” said Winner. In the […]
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Close to 100 Chabad Centers and their communities from throughout […]
