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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Notes from the Past

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Just found a notebook full of these weirdo notes from 1999-2000-ish. Don't act like you don't have your own weirdo notes from the pa...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

A Deeper Look at Vartn af Godot

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Please click over to Jewcy and read my interview with the translator of the Yiddish Waiting for Godot .
Sunday, September 7, 2014

Vartn af Godot

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New Yiddish Rep's triumphant production of the Yiddish language Waiting for Godot is now in previews at the Barrow Street Theater. I s...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

The Stories We Tell

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I stumbled on this a while ago, but just decided to blog about it. PRI partners with Israel Story to bring us a slice of life from Israel...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Nearly Lost Language Found By Intrepid Students Again. And Again. And Again.

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Nearly lost Yiddish language increasingly popular among Jewish college students This article from the JNS says that college students are ...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Journalist, Attorney, Angry Lady About Town and... Playwright?

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Now seems like a good time to share some exciting news. For the past few months/years I've been working on/sweating blood over my first ...
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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Money, Love, and Shame!

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UPDATE: I saw Money, Love, and Shame! on Sunday night. Now, full disclosure, Yelena and Allen are old friends (and colleagues) of mine. Ho...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

The Future of American Judaism Depends on the Elimination of Yiddish: So Sayeth the German Reform Elite

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My friend Dov-Ber hipped me to a gem from the JTA Archive. It's a report from the 1923  Golden Jubilee Convention of the Union of Americ...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Not New, But Newsy

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UPDATE: Ari's podcast recap of the conference is available here . It's a fast paced 12 minutes. Check it out! My Identity paper g...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Jewish Cultural Manifesto -- Throwback Thursday

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Throwback Thursday. Would you rather see something I wrote 9 years ago or would you like to see a picture of me playing cello on our seni...
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Rokhl Kafrissen is a journalist, playwright, attorney, and Jewish world gadfly in New York City.
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