A musical comedy celebrating the life and work of beloved Yiddish storyteller Sholom Aleichem will return to Santa Monica Playhouse this August and September for its sixth year. "Aleichem Sholom! The ...
In this hilarious episode of YidLife Crisis, comic duo Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion attend the bris of a friend, Abdul, who’s converting to Judaism on Rosh Hashanah. During the celebration, Elman ...
(JTA) — To fete the creator of the TV series that made him famous, Jewish actor and director Rob Reiner turned to Yiddish during the Emmys on Monday night. Reiner was paying tribute to Norman Lear, ...
When Fred Nadis originally envisioned his concept for I Married a Golem, a staged reading “proto-musical” in the style of a radio play, it was a puppet show. It has since grown out of its stringed ...
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A Yiddish circus in a suitcase

Imagine aerial acrobatics accompanied by a dreamy melody on fiddle and cimbalom. A juggler maneuvering seven bouncing balls ...