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The Dueling Scholars Who Bickered a Yiddish Dictionary Into Existence

The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the ...

Pixar’s Elio Is About A Dominican Family, And The Directors Told Me How Zoe Saldaña Was Integral To Weaving In Her Heritage

Elio is a fun space adventure that also has a lot of say about parenthood. In the movie, Elio and his aunt Olga Solís are ...

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary Shares His Secret to Investing in Crypto

The Shark Tank investor has some history here: he was at one point a paid spokesman for FTX, the now-defunct crypto exchange that, in late 2022, collapsed in extraordinary fashion, sending its ...