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Light the Way: 2017 Hanukkah Gift Guide

by Leah F. Finkelshteyn

Cleverly reimagined Jewish icons and iconography grant a modern edge to holiday gift giving.

Gifts + Judaica

Gifts + Judaica

Hanukkah Gift Guide: Festival of Color and Design

Judaica and other creations by these contemporary designers are global and vibrant, innovative and inclusive.

Gifts + Judaica

Baby Doll with Built-in Bluetooth

by Libby Barnea

An Israeli tech firm is behind the high-tech redesign on this phenomenally popular doll from the 1980s.

Gifts + Judaica

Gifts + Judaica

Passover Designs: Seder Plates and More

by Leah F. Finkelshteyn

by Leah F. Finkelshteyn

New designs from artists in Israel and North America add a special touch to the Seder table and give tangible expression to the Passover story.

Gifts + Judaica

Gifts + Judaica

Hanukka Gift Guide 2015

by Leah F. Finkelshteyn

by Leah F. Finkelshteyn

It’s hard not to ohh and ahh over these redesigned classics—including a botanical oversized menora and Hebrew nameplate necklaces—from Judaica and jewelry designers here and abroad. And

Gifts + Judaica

Value My (Jewish) Stuff

by Randi O'Connor

An online appraisal site is now offering expert valuations of your treasured Judaica and other works of Jewish-themed art, from menoras to kitsch.

Gifts + Judaica

Gifts + Judaica

2014 Hanukka Gift Guide: Sweet, Sweet Holiday

by Leah F. Finkelshteyn

by Leah F. Finkelshteyn

While Hanukka brings an abundance of options for any gift-giver, the highlights of this year’s gift list are sumptuous, beautiful—and yummy—confections now available for holiday consumption.

Gifts + Judaica

Web Sighting: Looking for Gifts Online

by Leah F. Finkelshteyn

If this is the time when you start your holiday gift search, a few sites may point you in the right direction (particularly for items

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Dec 6, 1889: #onthisday in #jewesshistory, Celia Feinman Adler Forman, known known as the "First Lady of the Yiddish theater” was born in New York City. ⁠
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Born as Tzirele Adler to British actress Dina Shtettin, who left her Orthodox family to join the theater world, and Jacob P. Adler, the Yiddish theater star who founded a theatrical dynasty. Among her half-siblings were noted actors Jay Adler, Luther Adler and Stella Adler. ⁠
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In 1919, Adler, a Zionist, helped open the first Yiddish Art Theater and wrote the two-volume study, “The Yiddish Theater in America." When “the Dybbuk” came to the New York Yiddish Art Theater, Adler starred as Leah, the woman who is possessed by a dybbuk. ⁠
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In 1937, Celia starred in the Yiddish film “Where Is My Child?” ("Vu iz mayn kind?”). She also gave one of the earliest theatrical portrayals of a Holocaust survivor in her half-brother Luther Adler’s 1946 Broadway production of “A Flag is Born.” ⁠
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Three men were fortunate enough to wed the “dramatic soubrette”—so called by Carl Van Vechten. In 1915 Adler married actor Lazar Freed and later said “I do” to her manager, Jack Cone, in 1930. After her second husband’s death in 1959, she married New York businessman Nathan Forman. He died a week before Adler. ⁠
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Her last film was “Naked City” (1948) and the actress’ last Broadway show was the 1961 drama “Women in Horseradish.” In the aftermath of World War II, Adler gave performances to American troops in English and Yiddish. �⁠
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“Mrs. Forman was sustained by an enormous creative energy throughout her life and an unflagging devotion to Jewish drama, becoming its foremost female exponent,” Joan Cook wrote in a 1979 New York Times obituary. ⁠
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Celia died on January 31, 1979 after suffering a heart attack. A week before she died at the Hebrew Home, Adler performed a one-act monologue and was already preparing for her next act. She is buried in the Yiddish Theater Section of Mount Hebron Cemetery in NYC.

Dec 6, 1889: #onthisday in #jewesshistory, Celia Feinman Adler Forman, known known as the "First Lady of the Yiddish theater” was born in New York City. ⁠
⁠
Born as Tzirele Adler to British actress Dina Shtettin, who left her Orthodox family to join the theater world, and Jacob P. Adler, the Yiddish theater star who founded a theatrical dynasty. Among her half-siblings were noted actors Jay Adler, Luther Adler and Stella Adler. ⁠
⁠
In 1919, Adler, a Zionist, helped open the first Yiddish Art Theater and wrote the two-volume study, “The Yiddish Theater in America." When “the Dybbuk” came to the New York Yiddish Art Theater, Adler starred as Leah, the woman who is possessed by a dybbuk. ⁠
⁠
In 1937, Celia starred in the Yiddish film “Where Is My Child?” ("Vu iz mayn kind?”). She also gave one of the earliest theatrical portrayals of a Holocaust survivor in her half-brother Luther Adler’s 1946 Broadway production of “A Flag is Born.” ⁠
⁠
Three men were fortunate enough to wed the “dramatic soubrette”—so called by Carl Van Vechten. In 1915 Adler married actor Lazar Freed and later said “I do” to her manager, Jack Cone, in 1930. After her second husband’s death in 1959, she married New York businessman Nathan Forman. He died a week before Adler. ⁠
⁠
Her last film was “Naked City” (1948) and the actress’ last Broadway show was the 1961 drama “Women in Horseradish.” In the aftermath of World War II, Adler gave performances to American troops in English and Yiddish. �⁠
⁠
“Mrs. Forman was sustained by an enormous creative energy throughout her life and an unflagging devotion to Jewish drama, becoming its foremost female exponent,” Joan Cook wrote in a 1979 New York Times obituary. ⁠
⁠
Celia died on January 31, 1979 after suffering a heart attack. A week before she died at the Hebrew Home, Adler performed a one-act monologue and was already preparing for her next act. She is buried in the Yiddish Theater Section of Mount Hebron Cemetery in NYC. ...

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