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How the Punk Rocker kept Chaim the Rocker frum This American Life episode - June 25,2004 Act 1 That's Funny, You Don't Look Jewish. Chaim and Billy both lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just blocks away from each other, in worlds that almost never collided. Chaim was a Hasidic Jew – he'd never heard pop music or watched MTV. Billy Campion, known as the rocker Vic Thrill, was the star of an underground band. Billy put Chaim, who took on the name Curly Oxide, into the band, and in just one year, he leapt from the 19th Century into the 21st. David Segal, rock critic for the Washington Post, reports. (39 minutes) Real Player is neccessary to hear the broadcast. Free Real Player download Click here, go to 6:30 minutes and listen
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Falk Zolf's story of his father's Slavita Shas The Slavuta Talmud Sabbath at night. Outside, the wind is blowing. Rain is falling. A willow tree taps with its thin branches against the window, as though it wanted someone to let it inside, to protect it from the cold and the rain. In mother’s house, the walls stand bare naked, like an orphaned child, who has no father and no mother. The rain lashed against it and the wind blew through it from all sides, and it was painful to see how it suffered. All the while, tears never ceased to flow from mother’s eyes. Only on Sabbath did her eyes rest from weeping, because one doesn’t dare to diminish that holy day with tears. But now, after sundown, with the grey week once more upon us, with hunger and need standing by our door, one was once more permitted to cry. She sat on the small bench facing the warm oven, peeling potatoes, because soon the children would be returning from synagogue, hungry as usual, and so she would fortify them wit...
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A high percentage of American Jews can trace their roots to the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum preserves a bit of that history. Click here for a tour
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Lecture by Rabbi Nathan Kamenetzky at YU on March 10, 2005. The title of the lecture was Of Bans, Earthquakes and Tsunamis http://www.yutorah.org/showShiur.cfm?shiurID=710353
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