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Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the spring cohort of Executive Fellows for the 2020-21 academic year. The Executive Fellows Program leverages the expertise of outstanding practitioners, including alumni, each of whom partners with an HBS faculty member to bring their experience in business into the MBA program and the School. The fellows contribute to the School by working with faculty and MBA students on curricular and co-curricular activities, including co-teaching course sessions...

One year after the onset of the pandemic, most American theaters are languishing in the dark. But performers are still competing for our eyeballs through ever-more-sophisticated slates of virtual entertainment. Polished, highly-produced events in the vein of “Saturday Night Seder” have attempted to reproduce the intimacy and immediacy of live theater, lulling us via special effects into believing that we’ve emerged from our crumb-speckled couches into the darkened auditoriums of yore. Unt...

The Forverts has released a Yiddish rendition of folksinger Woody Guthrie’s classic song, “This Land is Your Land.” The music video, which features an international group of Yiddish singers and klezmer musicians, was produced by punk-klezmer musician Daniel Kahn. While a Yiddish version of “This Land is Your Land” may at first seem far afield from the “dust-bowl troubadour’s” life and work, Guthrie, who was not Jewish, actually had deep personal and artistic connections to Yiddi...

MEGILLAH Stay In Your House, Click Your Mouse … Virtual Festival Will Have It All, Including Dr. Seuss in Yiddish, from February 25-28, 2021 SOUTH FLORIDA – The holiday of Purim has often been called “the Jewish Carnavale,” with the joys of song, laughter and drama folded into one, like tangy, fruit-filled hamantashen. That’s just the recipe for a Yiddishe Taam that the Yiddishkayt Initiative (“YI Love Jewish”) will be serving up at its first annual International VIRTUAL YI Love...

By Andrew Gans Jan 27, 2021 Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust. Skylar Astin Joseph Marzullo/WENN The Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust presents 18 Voices: A Liberation Day Reading of Young Writers’ Diaries From the Holocaust January 27 at 8 PM ET. The event is curated by Alexandra Zapruder and based on her book Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust. Tony winner Liev Sch...

Reply (Marc J. Franklin) On January 31, 2021, the Workers Circle will present a Yiddish Schmooze featuring Zalmen Mlotek, the Artistic Director at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, which presented the award-winning Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish and whose parents were integral members of the Workers Circle and passionate proponents of Yiddish culture. During the hour-long virtual event, Director of Yiddish Programming Nikolai (Kolya) Borodulin will talk with Mr. Mlotek not only about Yid...

One of the jets used by the blue angels. thats not snow on the ground, its foam. a man was flying a plane painted to look like the blue angels jets and landing gear wouldnt come down and fortunately he performed a textbook landing on its belly. the real blue angels set to perform in utah next month. a family in the wilderness getting lost while picking mushrooms, rescuers finding belinda and daniel kahn along with their 25-year-old son near the gold beach. they failed to return to a camp site an...

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