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radio
Zev Brenner, host of ‘premier’ Jewish radio show, sentenced for tax evasion
The host of a New York radio show that bills itself as “America’s premier Jewish program” was sentenced to one year of probation and a $2,500 fine for not filing taxes.
Star sidekick Gina Grad on bringing Jewish flavor to radio and podcast
Radio personality Gina Grad knows how to take a joke or two or three about her own people.
Behind every great ‘Serial’ podcast host, a Jewish studies professor
No spoilers here about the “Serial” season finale, but I will say this much: The episode ends with … a special thanks to a certain Jewish studies professor.
Melbourne radio host suspended for shouting ‘Sieg Heil’
A Melbourne radio host who claims Jewish descent was suspended for one month for shouting \”Sieg Heil\” three times at the mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
New York takes unprecedented steps ahead of Irene
New York City on Friday ordered the evacuation of more than 250,000 people and prepared to shut down its entire mass transit system, both unprecedented measures ahead of the expected battering from Hurricane Irene.
Beck to address Knesset committee
Right-wing radio talk show host Glenn Beck will address a Knesset committee during an upcoming visit to Israel.
‘Delancey’ dramatizes Yiddish radio’s reality show
In 2002, director/playwright Karen Sommers heard a story on National Public Radio about the Jewish American Board of Peace and Justice, a Jewish mediation court on the Lower East Side of New York that adjudicated disputes among community members between the late 1930s and 1956. The proceedings took place in a back room of the House of Sages, a synagogue led by Rabbi Shmuel Aaron Rubin, who presided over the cases, which were recorded and carried on such Yiddish radio stations as WLTH and WEVD. According to the Yiddish Radio Project Web site, where many of the programs heard on old-time Yiddish radio are archived, the conflicts covered everything from “the complaints of abandoned parents to altercations over ill-fitting sheets.”