Jewish Life Around the World

Are Chinese and Yiddish Mutually Exclusive?

Rabbi Loraine C. Heller

I ask you, is this a sheyn punim (a pretty face)? I’ve been dying to say those words for the past four years, ever since I came to China to work as a teacher of oral English at Nanyang Normal University.

Sometime around my 50th birthday, I was hit by

1938 Home Movie Bears Witness to a Lost Jewish Community

Rabbi Israel Zoberman
Before the outbreak of World War II in Europe, David Kurtz boarded the Nieuw Amsterdam on a vacation to England, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, and Poland. He took his 16 mm movie camera and filmed 14 minutes of images.