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Julius Rodriguez at the 2024 Newport Jazz Festival

A preview of the Hudson Jazz Festival and a new controversial doc about education in New York’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools

Doug Doyle

On the September 20 WBGO Journal we get a preview of the Hudson Jazz Festival and a new controversial doc about education in New York’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools

Harry Serlo, chairman of the Jewish community in Turku, Finland, displays a volume of a 19th Century Talmud,

WBGO Journal

A small Jewish community in Finland holds on

Doug Doyle

WBGO's Jon Kalish takes us to a small Jewish community in Finland

Clarinetist Mezz Mezrow was credited as being Louis Armstrong’s weed dealer:

WBGO Journal

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in Manhattan presents a new exhibit on Jews and Cannabis

Doug Doyle

WBGO's Jon Kalish reports on opening night for the new Manhattan exhibit on Jews and Cannabis

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Newark's Jewish Community: Pre and Post 1967 Rebellion

The population of Newark, and the Jewish Community in particular, dwindled drastically after the 1967 Newark Rebellion. While some call it “white flight,”…