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… Vazana   For many in Jewish St. Louis, the sound … contemporary,” Vazana told the Jewish Light last year. From … . Louis For many American Jews, Ashkenazi traditions dominate cultural memory. … represent a significant strand of Jewish life. Vazana’s performance …

… originated in Eastern Europe by Ashkenazi Jews. It’s a genre that … ’s founders, recently offered the Jewish Light a preview of their …

… (according to the Ashkenazi custom) mirrors in … sounded?Both Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, 1040-1105 … Jewish spark inside every Jew cannot be extinguished. Jewish identity … Jewish freedom and unprecedented Jewish disappearance.Millions of Jews …

Last Simhat Torah, Riki Rose and a group of her friends rented a space in Brooklyn. They brought a Torah scroll, and drinks and refreshments reflecting the finest kosher cuisine, with generous amounts of kugel and herring. They read from the Torah, using …

… also been producing projects with Jewish themes, including the documentaries “Shabbat … 1860, charting the lives of Ashkenazi Jews there. Darren Aronofsky is the … to keep the warm, joyfully Jewish community on Kveller accessible for …

… Wanting to better understand Judaism and Jewish history, I took … antisemitism once cast the Jew as the world’s … closest friends, Jeremy, an Ashkenazi Jew, spoke candidly with me … Jewish population by the 1970’s. Contrary to what some imply, Ashkenazi Jews …

… Ashkenazim, European Jews intent on forming a new sort of Jewish … Ottoman Turkish rule, albeit Jewish life in the empire … Ashkenazim and others worked with them. For their part, many European Jews … in 1948 largely by Ashkenazim Zionists, who turned themselves …

… she launched A Taste of Judaism at Hillel at The George … of Judaism is a program that seeks to explore the Jewish Diaspora … to share with students. Her Ashkenazi and Sephardic heritage allows her … through launching A Taste of Judaism? [I learned] how important …

… described growing up in an Ashkenazi household on Manhattan’s Upper … New York lox and bagels Jew,” and said his brother, Eric … leaned on Jewish identity publicly but avoided speaking when Jews and Israel … he speaks publicly as a Jew, he’s met with “ …