Click Here to Read: A new ‘Merchant of Venice’ production challenges anti-Jewish tropes by doubling down on them. A “contemporary, spirited” version of Shakespeare’s play opens off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company By Joseph Strauss November 20, 2024.
Shakespeare’s comedy of the Merchant of Venice. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: The Trump landslide that wasn’t By Anita Chabria in the Los Angeles Times on November 21, 2024. I
Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Prescott Valley Event Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona. mage: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: History of the Jews of Ukraine Once Europe’s largest Jewish community, Ukraine has had a major influence on the development of Ashkenazi Jewish culture on the My Jewish Learning website.
Jewish musicians (Faust family) from Rohatyn (modern western Ukraine). Klezmorim (Klezmers) – traditional musicians among Jews, most of them members of the Faust family. Rohatyn, 1912 (then in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian monarchy). Jewish klezmer music band, antique photo. Image: Unknown photographer from Rohatyn
