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US 'Dancing with the Stars' airs first Hanukkah-themed dance in holiday special

Viewers saw Alan Bersten and Valentin Chmerkovskiy, both Jewish, dancing to “Miracle” by Matisyahu.

Dancing with the Stars Hanukkah Special, December 7, 2025
US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron (not pictured) attend a press conference at the White House in Washington, DC, US, February 24, 2025.

Donald Trump reportedly expressed affection for ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at Kennedy Center meeting

 MONUMENT TO Shalom Aleichem in Bohuslav, Ukraine.

This week in Jewish history: Birthday of Frank Gehry, Yahrzeit of Avraham Ibn Ezra

 Lone Soldiers enjoy catching up while converting their foreign licenses to Israeli ones today in Holon.

Grapevine August 29, 2024: Lone Soldiers


Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish returning for limited off-Broadway run

The limited production will run from November 13, 2022, to January 1, 2023.

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Watching 'Fiddler on the Roof' in Hebrew in Tel Aviv - opinion

I loved seeing the show with my granddaughters among 2,400 fellow Israelis who understand the references, appreciate the nuances and laugh at the jokes.

 DAZZLING: CHARLES Bronfman Auditorium, Tel Aviv.

‘Fiddler on the Roof’ is back! Why is this musical so enduring?

Through Fiddler, audiences down through the generations navigate rites of passage, through weddings, bar mitvahs, and deaths, joys and sorrows, triumphs and catastrophes.

 A poster for the new production of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’

When ‘Fiddler’ star Topol was disgusted by legendary musical

Chaim Topol was originally disgusted by 'Fiddler on the Roof'. Soon after changing his mind, war in Israel took him off the stage...

Israeli poster for the 'Fiddler on the Roof' feature film, starring Chaim Topol. From the National Library of Israel Ephemera Collection

A movie about how ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ became a movie

“Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen,” tells the story of how the stage musical became a beloved screen classic, a unique backstage look at the musical success.

 Director Norman Jewison, right, and star Topol as Tevye on the set of the film version of "Fiddler on the Roof."

‘SNL’ parodies ‘Fiddler’ — and a famous Hasidic-run camera store

In a skit on Saturday’s SNL episode, guest host John Mulaney led the cast in a parody of Broadway musical numbers that included an homage to “Fiddler on the Roof.”

 John Mulaney and Kenan Thompson perform a parody of “Fiddler on the Roof” with a chorus line of Hasidic dancers on “Saturday Night Live,” Feb. 26, 2022.

Yiddish theater category on ‘Jeopardy!’ makes one contestant a rich(er) man

This week, the contestants are all college professors as part of the show’s first-ever professors tournament, and the host is Mayim Bialik.

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Forgotten novel by Sholom Aleichem published in English for first time

Sholom Aleichem, the pen name of Shalom Rabinowitz (1859-1916), was a masterful storyteller whose keen eye, wit and humor earned him the reputation as the Jewish Mark Twain.

STATUE OF Sholom Aleichem, Kiev.

'Fiddler' international cast sing 'Sabbath Prayer' in 9 languages - watch

Fiddler on the Roof's release comes amid the long-anticipated reopening of Broadway theaters in New York, bringing the world's preeminent musical theatres back to life from hiatus.

‘FIDDLER ON THE ROOF’ at the 70th annual Tony Awards in 2016. After the runaway success of NYTF’s unorthodox revival of ‘Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish,’ this anomaly may have inspired a whirlwind of interest in Yiddish classes, theater and culture that is having its moment during, of all things, a

‘Tevye in New York’ envisions the ‘Fiddler’ hero’s life beyond Anatevka

The one-man play titled “Tevye in New York,” reimagining the beloved Sholem Aleichem character, is opening its world premiere — in Beverly Hills, of all places.

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