CATSKILL- “When I graduated from SUNY Fredonia in 2020,” says Rachel Wagman, “all my final performances and graduation were cancelled.” The promising young opera singer had no opportunities, no video footage. “I basically got thrown out into the pandemic world. There was absolutely nothing for me career-wise.” And so, she…
CATSKILL – Abe Cahan was an idealistic young man from Vilna (Lithuania) who arrived in America like most immigrants – with big hopes and dreams. He arrived on these shores in 1882 and, after apprenticing at several newspapers, founded The Jewish Daily Forward in 1897. Given the influx of displaced Russians and…
CATSKILL – A Bintel Brief, Yiddish for “a bundle of letters” was the daily advice column which The Jewish Daily Forward ran for 80 years. In it, the newspaper’s wise and sometimes cranky editor dispensed shrewd, practical and fair-minded advice to his readership – newly arrived immigrants questioning how to manage life in this bewildering…
