The late, great Joe Flaherty plays a priest in the timeless SCTV take on the family seder, 'Match Unto My Feet'

Read my Pesakh column from last year, explaining how Sid Dithers relates to medieval Jewish drinking songs: tabletmag.com/sections/commu…

Jesus how did i miss this? 😳

For students who have already completed a beginners' course, this four week online workshop is a unique introduction to Yiddish poetry, taught in English. Sign up to this and other online classes starting in May at Babel's Blessing Language School: babelsblessing.org/yiddish

First known appearance of gefilte fish in Oceania

Another living descendant of a postcard author found! This time a niece of Meir Bentzion Lamer who authored this postcard in February of 1938.

How'd that work out?

The first Passover Haggadah printed in America in 1837 was part of the Gratz college’s library for nearly a century. Rebecca Gratz joined her brother Hyman to establish a trust to create the Gratz Hebrew teachers college in Philadelphia.

Is... is this a trailer for a 'Cobbler' style magical realism comedy about a magic shtender that can time travel and also makes shidukhim for the bokhrim??

& it's the only way in I/P, where 14 mill people have nowhere else they call home, where only a political solution, a mutual commitment to justice, liberation, peace, & to repairing all that which can be (& acknowledging the debt of what can't) can lead to a more whole tomorrow.

Listen, solidarity is the only way home — for all of us.
It's the only way home here, where Christian nationalism is on the rise and we must all work together to safeguard our collective access to democracy, freedom, human rights, civil rights, and the planet.

It's hard to talk about something if we can't see how insidious ideas even got there.

1/x thread

Mondays...

Early galleys are in for the incredible biography of the great Agnès Varda, coming in August. Interested?
'This is biography and film scholarship at their combined best—the irresistible story of an indomitable woman!”
—MOLLY HASKELL
“A landmark achievement.'—NOAH ISENBERG

What do you have against Ham Wasser? ????
<mmm, forbidden maskilish tsaytung>

On your drive to/from work, you'll want to listen to this audio piece by Jonathan Kalish.

The art of Chazonis is thriving in Hasidic communities of New York.

shtetl.org/article/hasidi…