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EST 1917

The story of Romeo and Juliet has been adapted and updated to fit all sorts of contexts, from gang wars (in West Side Story) to online miscommunication (in an adaptation called Such Tweet Sorrow). Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish, a recent film update of the play, isn’t a retelling so much as it is a telling about the retelling. […]

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The Israeli composer Kutiman–also known as Ophir Kutiel–might not play an instrument, but he can make a symphony. Kutiman came to the world’s attention with the project ThruYou. He collected YouTube films of amateur musicians playing in front of home video cameras  and played the tracks together, mixing them into amazing, funk-laced symphonies. The result, when he posted them online, garnered literally […]

Many of the Eastern European Jews who immigrated to the United States in the early 20th century wanted to partake in “real” American life –including American foods and beverages. In 1935, an Orthodox rabbi in Atlanta, Tobias Geffen, spent several years working with the  Coca-Cola Company to determine whether Coke was kosher. He faced one major problem: the recipe for Coca-Cola was one […]

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