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1. REVIEW: ‘The People in the Picture’ frames a Holocaust story
(Entertainment/Movies)

... shifting in time and place between 1930s-40s Warsaw and 1970s Manhattan, the musical centers upon elderly Raisel (Murphy) who tells stories about her younger self’s experiences with a Yiddish theater troupe ...

2. Former N.J. Congressman John Adler remembered
(Opinion/Commentary)

... “authentic,” and “honorable.” They stressed John’s love of family. Several called him “a mensch,” a highly complimentary Yiddish word that goes beyond being “a good person.” Rather, it means “someone to ...

3. ‘Potiche’: Movie review and trailer
(Entertainment/Movies)

... some knickknack one might put on a shelf in a breakfront. A tchotchke, in other words. In everyday French, potiche also refers to a trophy wife or girlfriend. In Yiddish — the language that gave us “tchotchke” ...

4. Rutgers’ Jewish Studies Online courses are reaching interested students around the world
(Life/Style)

... it means to be a Jew?" Rutgers' Department of Jewish Studies, with its experts in rabbinical literature, ancient Israel, Hebrew and Yiddish languages, Israeli politics, and Jewish history, culture, and ...

5. The plight of Faith Kramer, and teaching honestly about sex
(Life/Style)

... home where their parents could see the "off-color words for sexual acts and body parts, including two Yiddishisms for the male sexual organ." According to court documents filed against Kramer, at least ...

6. 'Holy Rollers' brings ecstasy, drug trade and Orthodox Jews together
(Entertainment/Movies)

... about ultra-Orthodox life, including Yiddish words and phrases, broad-brimmed black hats, holiday observances and so on, there's no sense in the film of felt life – of people with individual desires and ...

7. New York deli becoming a thing of the past
(Life/Style)

...  "I like this restaurant because it's like my family - food, laughter, fun, noise and lots of other stuff," Jonas says between bites. His father, Jeremy Plaut, enjoys the Yiddish words for the foods ...

8. Synagogue shooting helps magnify a Jewish grandma's disturbing message
(Life/Style)

... "golden land." No sounds of horses' hooves coming into Jewish villages. But my grandmother, who had an impressive temper, would actually stamp her feet and tell us, in broken English mixed with Yiddish, ...

9. Home inspires Coen brothers latest movie: ‘A Serious Man’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... happens to the characters is all fiction," says Ethan Coen. Like the melancholy Yiddish music Larry Gopnick listens to as he tries to forget his woes, "A Serious Man" taps into specific details of growing ...