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July 13th, 2021 Bad Brad “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right … and a desire to know.” — John Adams, 1765 By Michelle L. Warmath Those of you who have seen the 1980 Arthur Miller movie “Playing for Time” will remember that it is based on the memories of one of the survivors of the women’s orchestra that was organized in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp from 1943 to November 1944. Today I would like to honor the me...

Auschwitz survivor and fighter against fascism Esther Bejarano has died Hundreds of thousands are mourning the death of Jewish Auschwitz survivor Esther Bejarano, who died on Saturday night at the age of 96. She was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in 1943 at the age of 18 and only survived the Nazis’ machinery of murder because she was accepted into the Auschwitz girls’ orchestra as an accordion player. The courageous contemporary witness with small alert eyes and a ha...

Thinking Pink: A Survey of 2020 Rosé Wines By Elizabeth Kratz | April 22, 2021 This past week, many of the judges who tasted and ranked wine for The Jewish Link Wine Guide got back together, with a few other enthusiasts, in a Teaneck backyard to taste 31 rosé wines made in 2020. We tasted as many of the kosher pinks on the market we could reasonably find, but we also wanted to try the labels that had been considered the best of 2019, namely Cantina Guiliano, Dal...

In happier times, Alma Rosé recorded the Bach Double Violin Concerto with her father and teacher Arnold Rosé (originally Rosenblum), the esteemed concertmaster, and it is harder to say which takes more getting used to, the very restrained vibrato that Arnold Rosé employed as a musician with both feet firmly in the 19th century preferences for vibrato and portamento, or the astounding cadenza that Hellmesberger inserted into his edition of the third movement. While some sources you re...

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