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‘We have to leave our comfort zone’: Cautious but determined, Israeli expats protest Netanyahu’s government
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Benny Chukrun, speaking in Hebrew on a wind-whipped day outside the Israeli embassy in the U.S. capital, had a message for his fellow protesters.
“We have a special role in Washington. We have access to the Jewish opinion leaders in the United States,” he said at a rally on Sunday opposing far-reaching changes planned by the new government in Israel, including a proposal to limit the power of the country’s judiciary. “We have to leave our comfort zone and act.”
Israeli expatriates have been coming together in cities worldwide in solidarity with the tens of thousands who have gathered every Saturday night in Tel Aviv and elsewhere to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government. Rallies have taken place in New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles, Miami, Vancouver, Sydney, Berlin, Paris and London, drawing crowds ranging in size from 50 to 200. This weekend, the protests in North America took place on Sunday to accommodate demonstrators who observe Shabbat.
It’s new and at times intimidating territory for Israeli expatriates. Israelis in America were once known to keep a low profile in Jewish communities due to a stigma associated with leaving Israel. That sense of shame has faded as growing numbers of Israelis have relocated to the United States for work in the tech sector or other fields. Overseas travel and communication have also grown far easier. More recently, Israeli political activists in the United States have become best known for supporting their country publicly via organizations such as the Israeli-American Council.
The group organizing many of the rallies, UnXeptable, formed in 2020 to demonstrate in solidarity with Israeli protests against Netanyahu. Now, the mandate has broadened to oppose the actions of the Israeli government. That change has sparked familiar anxieties among Israelis in the United States: Are they harming Israel’s public image? Do they have a right to criticize their home country now that they have moved outside of its borders?
These questions populated multiple WhatsApp groups ahead of this weekend’s protests, said Kathy Goldberg, 57, an Israeli American who helped organize the solidarity protest in Evanston, Illinois, a Chicago suburb.
“There were fears of it looking, ‘anti-Israel,’ fears of antisemitism, that it will look like we’re piling on Israel and giving them more ammunition, when in fact these are people who love Israel and believe that right now this is the most pro-Israeli thing we can do, to help protect Israel as a democracy,’” she told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
What helped Goldberg and other Israelis overcome those fears was the role that they feel Israelis living abroad can play in explaining to Jewish communities why it’s OK, this time, to come out and protest. At the rally outside of the Israeli embassy, Chukrun pointed out that Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli just traveled to the United States to defend the government’s proposals.
“Chikli was here a while ago, trying to persuade the conservative Jewish funders of Kohelet that the revolution underway is not antidemocratic,” Chukrun told the 50 or so Israelis who met outside the embassy, referring to the Kohelet Forum, an influential Israeli right-wing think tank that is leading the charge in advocating abroad for the new government.
“We can give the opposing voice, we must give the opposing voice,” he told the crowd, which responded with murmurs of agreement. “Whoever has friends in Jewish organizations, reach out. We must explain to them what is going on. There is a lot of ignorance, misunderstanding.”
The Israelis who are protesting, both in Israel and abroad, are reeling from a barrage of potential changes. The issue with the highest profile has been a proposed reform that would significantly weaken Israel’s judicial review and change the way judges are appointed. Groups of protesters also oppose government pledges to annex West Bank territory to Israel, restrict the rights of LGBTQ Israelis and expand police powers — particularly in relation to Israeli Arabs.
“A lot of [Jewish] Americans say,’What’s the problem? Here [in the United States], politicians pick judges,’” said Chukrun, 62, who works in educational tech. “They don’t understand that [in the United States], it is just one part of an overall structure of checks and balances, and you can’t just take one aspect of the state of Israel that is already a democracy standing on chicken legs.”
Expatriate Israeli protesters outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 2023. (Ron Kampeas)
Etai Beck, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, told the crowd at the San Francisco protest that the Jewish Diaspora had a moral stake in speaking out now. He framed his speech as a true/false test. Like Chukrun, he criticized the Kohelet Forum as well as Israel Hayom, a free right-wing tabloid in Israel that is funded by Miriam Adelson, wife of the late casino magnate and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson.
“The Jewish people outside Israel are not allowed to express their opinions and join the protest: False,” he said in his remarks in English, which were shared on WhatsApp with other protesters. “One, Israel was established as the worldwide Jewish center. Two, the Jewish people worldwide lobbies and supports Israel — in Congress, in the media, in day to day life.”
To the degree that Israeli Americans have had a public profile until now, that profile has leaned right. The Israeli-American Council, funded to a large degree by the Adelsons, has served as a forum for Republicans in recent years; it was one of just two Jewish groups that Donald Trump agreed to speak to as president, and he used the occasion to mock American Jews for not supporting Israel enough. The protests IAC organizes typically defend Israel’s sitting government.
Shay Bar, 38, who attended the Los Angeles protest with his family, said the concerns of Israelis abroad in this instance stretched beyond partisanship.
“Our solidarity from abroad is for the future of Israel and our future here in the Diaspora,” he said. “If Israel’s democracy erodes, that will directly affect Jewish and Israeli life and in the Diaspora.”
At the Washington rally, protesters held up massive Israeli flags. An older man, speaking Hebrew, asked a group of teenagers holding up letters spelling “DEMOCRACY” in English whether they were aligned properly, and they collectively rolled their eyes and said, in English, that yes, they were. The protest ended with a rendition of “Hatikvah,” the Israeli national anthem.
Protesters in San Francisco made light of an old Israeli warning not to “wash one’s dirty laundry” abroad. “We learned from Bibi [Netanyahu] to wash our dirty laundry overseas,” said a poster in San Francisco, a reference to Netanyahu’s wife Sara’s habit of loading her flights with dirty clothes because she preferred laundry service overseas.
“Some of us here are here temporarily, some not so much,” said Yoni Charash, 47, a lawyer wearing a T-shirt bearing UnXeptable’s logo. “We all go visit, we have a connection, those of us who leave Israel are not cut off from Israel.”
Nor were they cut off from the larger Jewish communities they live in, said Chukrun. Times had changed since Israelis arriving in the United States kept to themselves because they were alienated by the synagogue-centric life of American Jews.
“Jews in the United States feel the Judaism of faith and Israelis feel the Judaism of national identity, the Israeliness,” he told JTA. “There is a cultural difference, but in recent years it’s begun to change.”
Bar in Los Angeles said Israelis are likelier now to assimilate into American Jewish communities than not. “We’re Israeli Americans who live within the community, we send our kids to school with a Jewish education, go to synagogues on holidays and are an integral part of the American Jewish community,” he said.
Chukrun, speaking to JTA, said it was critical to leverage the relationships Israelis had with American Jews.
“We have to explain that it’s not the land of the patriarchs and matriarchs, not the land of the Bible,” he said. “It’s a real country with real people — with ugly things.”
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US-Israel War Effort Bolstered by Growing Support in Middle East, Europe as Iran Left Isolated
Smoke rises after reported Iranian missile attacks, following United States and Israel strikes on Iran, as seen from Doha, Qatar, March 1, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
As Iran’s missile and drone attacks widen and prompt outrage, a loose coalition is forming of Middle Eastern and Western powers to act against Tehran, leaving the regime increasingly isolated as the US and Israel continue their military campaign.
On Monday, several Israeli media outlets reported that Qatar launched strikes against Iran over the last 24 hours, following what officials described as a series of Iranian attacks targeting the country and the broader region.
However, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Majid al-Ansari denied Doha’s involvement in “the campaign targeting Iran,” describing its actions as defensive in nature rather than part of any war effort.
“We exercised our legitimate right to self-defense and to deter Iranian aggression against our territory,” al-Ansari said in a statement.
The Qatari diplomat further confirmed that officials had prevented a planned attack aimed at Hamad International Airport in Doha.
“It is misguided to suggest that pressuring Gulf nations will bring Iran back to the negotiating table,” al-Ansari said.
“We received no advance warning from Iran regarding the missile strikes,” he continued. “The target was not limited to military installations, but extended to the country’s entire territory. Such attacks will not go unanswered.”
Amid escalating regional tensions, Saudi Arabia could also be drawn into the military campaign against the Islamist regime after two Iranian drones struck near the United States Embassy in Riyadh, igniting an explosion in the city. Saudi Arabia is considering a symbolic attack on Iran in response, according to Israeli media reports.
US President Donald Trump strongly condemned the attack, issuing a stark warning to Tehran and saying that Iranian aggression would be met with a forceful US response.
“They will soon learn the price of the attack on the US Embassy in Riyadh and the killing of American service members,” Trump wrote in a social media post.
Since the start of the war this past weekend, Iran has reportedly launched 450 missiles and 1,140 drones toward Gulf states, a barrage that has pushed regional governments to distance themselves from Tehran and align more openly with the Israeli and American offensive.
As the conflict widened, Iran extended its attacks beyond Israel, targeting what it described as “US interests” across the region and launching missile and drone strikes that reached several Gulf countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait.
Iran “is now in complete isolation in the entire world, including among the Gulf states,” Darar al-Hol al-Falasi, a former member of the UAE’s Federal National Council, told the Israeli broadcaster Kan News. “The attacks were like the straw that broke the camel’s back.”
Media reports also indicated Iranian strikes in the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq, reportedly to preempt any uprising from Kurdish opposition groups, and an Iranian-made drone, likely launched by Iran-backed Hezbollah from Lebanon, striking a British base in Cyprus.
According to analysts, Iran appeared to believe that expanding the war and targeting Gulf states would push regional governments to press Washington toward de-escalation. However, the move has instead reinforced regional resistance and prompted closer alignment against Tehran.
Meanwhile, both Washington and Jerusalem have indicated that there is no fixed timetable for ending their military operation, stressing that actions will continue as long as necessary to neutralize the threat posed by Iran
“From the beginning, we projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that, we’ll do it,” Trump said in a statement.
“This was our last best chance to strike … and eliminate the intolerable threats posed by this sick and sinister regime,” he continued.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar also said there is no set timeline for the joint military effort with Washington against Iran, describing the strikes as a necessary step to weaken Tehran’s leadership and strategic capabilities.
Initially cautious, European Union members are now gradually increasing their involvement, moving to safeguard strategic assets in the region against Iranian drone and missile threats.
On Tuesday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced an increased French military presence in the region, confirming the deployment of fighter jets to the UAE after an Iranian drone struck a French military installation in Abu Dhabi.
“Discussions are underway with France’s allies in the Middle East regarding the provision of equipment to strengthen their defensive capabilities,” Barrot said.
France will dispatch a warship and anti-missile and anti-drone systems to help protect British facilities in Cyprus after two drones targeting the British air base at RAF Akrotiri were intercepted.
Greece also announced its support for Cyprus, deploying four F-16 fighter jets and two frigates, including one carrying the Centauros anti-drone jamming system, while pledging to defend the island “by all necessary means.”
Britain said it would deploy the Type 45 destroyer HMS Dragon and two Wildcat helicopters armed with Martlet missiles to strengthen defenses in the Eastern Mediterranean.
European support is expanding beyond Cyprus. French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday said France was sending its aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to the Mediterranean and working to build a coalition that would help secure maritime traffic.
“We have economic interests to protect, because oil prices, gas prices, and the international trade situation are being profoundly disrupted by this war,” Macron said in a televised address.
As Iran presses ahead with its regional escalation despite growing opposition, the United States, along with Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, issued a joint statement strongly condemning Tehran’s “indiscriminate and reckless missile and drone attacks” against sovereign territories across the region.
“We stand united in defense of our citizens, sovereignty, and territory, and reaffirm our right to self-defense in the face of these attacks,” the statement read.
Britain, France, and Germany — collectively known as the E3 — have also condemned what they described as “the indiscriminate and disproportionate missile attacks” by Iran on regional countries, saying the strikes pose a broader threat to regional stability.
“Iran’s reckless attacks have targeted our close allies and are threatening our service personnel and our civilians across the region,” the statement said.
“We will take steps to defend our interests and those of our allies, potentially through enabling necessary and proportionate defensive action to destroy Iran’s capability to fire missiles and drones at their source,” it continued. “We have agreed to work together with the US and allies in the region on this matter.”
Meanwhile, China and Russia — despite their close ties to Iran — have so far limited their response to diplomatic statements and calls for de-escalation, echoing their restrained posture during last year’s 12-day war with Israel.
Moscow convened emergency meetings and publicly denounced the attacks but stopped short of offering material assistance to Tehran, despite the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership treaty the two countries signed last year.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stressed that Beijing opposes unilateral military action and supports Iran’s right to defend itself.
“China supports Iran in upholding its sovereignty, security, territorial integrity, and national dignity, while safeguarding its legitimate rights and interests,” the Chinese diplomat said in a statement.
“Major powers should not exploit their military superiority to launch arbitrary attacks on other nations, and the world must not return to a law of the jungle,” she continued.
Beijing is even urging Tehran to avoid disrupting shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — a vital passage connecting the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea and a key route for global energy shipments — as escalating conflict threatens international oil and gas supplies.
Iran has long threatened to close the waterway in the event of war with the US.
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‘Solidarity’: Faculty for Palestine Groups Urge Students to Stand With Jihadists, Remnants of Iranian Regime
A woman holds a photo of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as she takes part in anti-US protest outside the White House. Photo: Matrix Images / Gent Shkullaku via Reuters Connect
Anti-Zionist faculty on college campuses are cajoling students to support Islamism, jihad, and terrorism by recruiting them to participate in demonstrations for the revolutionary government of Iran, a regime which is responsible for killing American soldiers through proxy groups across the Middle East.
“Dear Students, I know it is very short notice, but for those who would like to participate in social protest against the US and Israeli war on Iran, Angelenos are gathering in 2 hours at City Hall,” Elizabeth Ribet, a professor at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, wrote on Saturday, signing off the note with “solidarity.”
“This email is a blatant example of a professor abusing her academic authority to politicize the classroom,” Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, higher education expert and executive director of the campus watchdog group AMCHA Initiative, told The Algemeiner in an exclusive statement. “AMCHA Initiative’s latest report documents hundreds of similar examples and concludes that when faculty blur the line between teaching and anti-Israel political advocacy, antisemitic hostility on campus rises. Recognizing this danger, more than 350 UC [University of California] faculty have recently urged the Regents to act. UC leaders must recommit to academic integrity and ensure classrooms remain places of scholarship and rigorous inquiry, not platforms for political mobilization.”
Ribet’s note is one of many communications that pro-jihadist student and faculty groups have issued since the US and Israel launched military strikes against Iran and killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei over the weekend.
Since then, The Algemeiner has reviewed over a dozen examples of faculty, specifically the Faculty for Justice in Palestine organization, proclaiming solidarity with Iran’s Islamist, authoritarian regime and lambasting the US and Israel for their joint operation.
“These u.s.-backed attacks are designed to spark a regional war, sacrificing the people of Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and beyond to further amerikkkan and zionist domination [sic],” said a post liked by the University of California Ethnic Studies Council, a body of professors who proposed an ethnic studies high school requirement for UC admissions. Critics have noted that the proposal pushed anti-Zionism in the classroom.
“Every drop of their blood spilled ignites our rage, our grief, and our duty,” the post continued. “We must continue to organize in solidarity with the Palestinian people, until the end of zionism [sic] and the liberation of Palestine.”
It added, “RESISTANCE IS GLORIOUS.”
The UC Ethnic Studies Council also shared a post by the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, a far-left group that has defended terrorism against Israel, which said, “We reject imperialist and wear mongering narratives that position Iran as the intruder in the region, rather than US military bases and US interventionism.”
In Bronxville, New York, Sarah Lawrence College’s Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP) chapter posted a volley of messages which called for “de-platforming Zionists” and ending military operations in Iran. The group also shared false claims that the US opened fire on Pakistani civilians.
Just miles away, Saint John’s University FJP group shared agitprop falsely alleging that the US intentionally targeted an Iranian school with an airstrike and has “always … sacrificed” children. The group also called for sabotaging the war effort by refusing to file taxes or to file by paper to delay the government’s receiving revenue. Meanwhile, the post suggested that agents in the government are prepared to participate in the conspiracy.
“The absolute bare minimum those of us in the imperial core should be doing is NOT FUNDING THIS SH—T,” said the post. “For example even just filing your taxes via paper slows down the IRS and makes it easier for other tax registers to make an impact with their actions as well.”
Bowdoin College, New York University, Bryn Mawr College, and Haverford College all have Faculty for Justice in Palestine groups sharing similar social media content.
The posts come after the Iranian regime killed tens of thousands of civilian anti-government protesters last month in a brutal crackdown. Iran for years has also been the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism, according to Western intelligence agencies. For example, Iran funded, armed, and trained Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that perpetrated the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel.
College faculty not only promote terrorism but also play a singular role in triggering and accelerating the campus antisemitism crisis, according to a recent study by AMCHA Initiative.
Focusing on UC campuses as case studies, the study exposed Oct 7 denialism; faculty calling for driving Jewish institutions off campus; the founding of pro-Hamas, Faculty for Justice in Palestine groups; and hundreds of endorsers of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
“While students are the most visible actors, faculty and academic departments are key institutional drivers of the hostile environment,” the AMCHA Initiative said following the report’s publication. “Across three campuses, many faculty who promoted anti-Israel activism through university channels had previously endorsed an academic boycott of Israel (academic BDS). The boycott’s guidelines explicitly call on supporters to implement ‘anti-normalization’ in their professional roles. These include excluding Zionist perspectives, speakers, and programs from academic life.”
The report followed previous studies revealing the extent of faculty misconduct in higher education promoting anti-Israel animus and even outright antisemitism.
Just last month, The Algemeiner learned that, according to a lawsuit, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University assigned a Jewish student a project on “what Jews do to make themselves such a hated group.”
Similar incidents have come at a fast clip since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 massacre: a Cornell University praised the terrorist group’s atrocities, which included mass sexual assaults; a Columbia University professor exalted Hamas terrorists who paraglided into a music festival to murder Israeli youth as the “air force of the Palestinian resistance”; and a Harvard University chapter of FJP shared an antisemitic cartoon which depicted Zionists as murderers of Blacks and Arabs.
“The report documents how concentrated networks of faculty activists on each campus, often operating through academic units and faculty-led advocacy formations, convert institutional platforms into vehicles for organized anti-Zionist advocacy and mobilization,” the report stated. “It shows how those pathways are associated with recurring student harms and broader campus disruption. It then outlines concrete steps the UC Regents can take to restore institutional neutrality in academic units and set enforceable boundaries so UC resources and authority are not used to advance activist agendas inside the university’s core educational functions.”
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דאָס איז איינער פֿון אַ סעריע קורצע אַרטיקלען אָנגעשריבן אױף אַ רעלאַטיװ גרינגן ייִדיש און געצילעװעט אױף סטודענטן. די מחברטע איז אַלײן אַ ייִדיש־סטודענטקע. דאָ קען מען לײענען די פֿריִערדיקע אַרטיקלען אין דער סעריע.
אין סעפּטעמבער 2025 האָבן אַ סך ניו־יאָרקער ליבהאָבערס פֿון ייִדיש הנאה געהאַט פֿון אַלעקס װײַזערס אָפּערע, „דער גרױסער װערטערבוך פֿון דער ייִדישער שפּראַך“. און איצט אין אַ פּאָר װאָכן אַרום װעלן זײ קענען געניסן פֿון זײַן נײַער אָפּערע, „טבֿיהס טעכטער“. אַפֿילו אין ניו־יאָרק איז די געלעגנהײט צו הערן צװײ ייִדיש־שײכדיקע אָפּערעס במשך פֿון זעקס חדשים אַ זעלטן פֿאַרגעניגן.
די קאָנצערט־פֿאָרשטעלונג פֿון „טבֿיהס טעכטער“ װעט פֿאָרקומען דעם 19טן מאַרץ, 7 אַ זײגער, אינעם מוזײ פֿון דער ייִדישער ירושה — אַ לעבעדיקער דענקמאָל צום חורבן (װוּ מען קען אַגבֿ אויך זען אַן אױסשטעלונג װעגן דעם ייִדיש־רעדנדיקן קינסטלער אַרטור שיק). די אָפּערע איז מערסטנס אױף ענגליש אָבער נעמט אַרײַן אַ סך ייִדישע װערטער און פֿראַזעס.
צװישן די זיבן זינגערס װאָס װעלן אױפֿטרעטן אױף דער בינע װעט זײַן גדעון דאַבי, װאָס איז געװען אַ שטערן פֿון „דער גרױסער װערטערבוך פֿון דער ייִדישער שפּראַך“. דאָס מאָל װעט ער זינגען די ראָלע פֿון טבֿיה דער מילכיקער, דעם באַרימטן פּערסאָנאַזש געשאַפֿן פֿון שלום עליכם.
„טבֿיהס טעכטער“ קאָנצענטרירט זיך בעיקר אױף פֿינף פֿון טבֿיהס װײַבלעכע משפּחה־מיטגלידער: זײַנע טעכטער שפּרינצע, צײטל, חװה און בײלקע (װאָס זענען באַקאַנט פֿון די אָריגינעלע מעשׂיות), און צײטלס אײניקל רױז — װאָס װײַזער און דער אָפּערעס ליברעטאָ־מחברטע סטעפֿאַני פֿלײַשמאַן האָבן אױסגעטראַכט צוזאַמען.
די דראַמע קומט פֿאָר טײלװײַז אין בויבעריק (אוקראַיִנע) אין 1907 און טײלװײַז אין די קאַטסקיל בערג אין 1964. אין 1907 שפּילט זיך אױס די טראַגעדיע פֿון שפּרינצע, װאָס פֿאַרליבט זיך אין אַ רײַכן יונגערמאַן. ער זאָגט צו אַז ער װעט חתונה האָבן מיט איר אָבער דערנאָך פֿאַרלאָזט ער זי, און זי װערט אַזוי פֿאַרייִאושט אַז זי נעמט זיך דאָס לעבן.
אַ טײל פֿונעם סיפּור־המעשׂה קומט אָבער פֿאָר כּמעט 60 יאָר שפּעטער, אין 1964, וועןשפּרינצעס דרײַ עלטערע שװעסטער צײטל, חװה און בײלקע זענען שוין אַלט צװישן 70 און 80 יאָר. זײ האָבן לאַנג צוריק זיך באַזעצט אין ניו־יאָרק, אָבער די זכרונות פֿון שפּרינצעס זעלבסטמאָרד לאָזן זײ נישט רוען. בעת זײ פֿאַרברענגען בײַ חווהס זומערהױז אין די קאַטסקילס קומט צו זײ צו גאַסט צײטלס אײניקל רױז, װאָס ראַנגלט זיך מיט איר אײגענער „פֿאַרװערטער“ ליבע — און װאָס װערט אַ ביסל „צו פֿיל צוגעצױגן“ צו דער סאַזשלקע לעבן דעם הױז. דאָס רופֿט אַוודאי אַרויס די פֿראַגע, צי איז רױז, װאָס ווערט געשפּילט פֿון דער זעלביקער זינגערין װי שפּרינצע, באַשערט דער זעלבער גורל פֿון איר עלטער־מומען?
װײַזער האָט מיר דערקלערט פֿאַר װאָס דער פּאַרשוין שפּרינצע שטימט ספּעציעל גוט מיט דער אָפּערע. לױט אים איז זי אַ פּערסאָנאַזש װעמענס קול איז אָפֿט פֿאַרשטומט. בײַ שלום עליכמען לייענט מען שפּרינצעס מעשׂה בלויז דורך טבֿיהס קוקװינקל. פֿון אָנהײב ביזן סוף זאָגט שפּרינצע אַלײן נאָר אַ פּאָר װערטער. טבֿיה באַמערקט אַז זײַן טאָכטער לײַדט אין דער שטיל, אָבער ער פֿאַרשטייט נישט די סימנים פֿון אירע יסורים.
װײַזער האָט אױך אָנגעװיזן אַז שפּרינצע געפֿינט זיך בכלל נישט אינעם מיוזיקל „פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך“ צוליב דער שװערער טעמע פֿון איר אַלײנמאָרד. (אַ מײדל אין דער פּיעסע הייסט טאַקע שפּרינצע , אָבער מען דערמאָנט נישט איר מעשׂה). שפּרינצע איז דערפֿאַר כּמעט אומבאַקאַנט בײַם ברײטן עולם, בשעת איר שוועסטער צײטל און חװה זענען גוט באַקאַנט.
„צוליב אַלע די דאָזיקע סיבות װערט שפּרינצע אַ מין סימבאָל פֿון אַ טראַדיציאָנעלער ייִדישער װעלט װאָס איז אונדז אומבאַקאַנט, און װוּ די װײַבערשע קולות זענען אָפֿט פֿאַרשטומט געוואָרן. אונדזער אָפּערע גיט אַ רײַך בליק אין דער דאָזיקער װעלט און גיט שפּרינצען צוריק איר קול, װאָס זי ניצט צו דערצײלן די אײגענע מעשׂה פֿונעם אײגענעם קוקװינקל. עטלעכע מאָל זינגט זי אַז די מעשׂה איז אירע, און אַז דער טאַטע טבֿיה דאַרף נישט דערצײלן אױף איר אָרט“, האָט װײַזער געזאָגט.
כּדי צוריקצוגעבן שפּרינצען איר קול האָבן װײַזער און פֿלײַשמאַן איבערגעלײענט אַ סך ייִדישע ליטעראַטור אָנגעשריבן פֿון פֿרױען. זײ האָבן אױסגעפֿאָרשט די װערק פֿון קאַדיע מאָלאָדאָװסקי, סאַלאָמעאַ פּערל, בעלאַ שאַגאַל און אַנדערע מחברטעס װאָס האָבן פּרעכטיק באַשריבן די דערפֿאַרונגען פֿון פֿרױען. װי טבֿיהס טעכטער, האָבן די דאָזיקע שרײַבערינס זיך אָפֿט געפֿילט צעריסן צװישן דער ייִדישער טראַדיציע און די געלעגנהײטן פֿון דער מאָדערנער װעלט.
ספּעציעל װיכטיק בײַ װײַזערן און פֿלײַשמאַנען איז געװען די טראַדיציע פֿון תּחינות. די דאָזיקע פּערזענלעכע תּפֿילות אױף ייִדיש זענען לאַנג געװען פֿאַרבונדן מיט פֿרױען. אַ מאָל האָבן פֿרױען זײ אָנגעשריבן פֿאַר זיך אַלײן אָדער פֿאַר זייערע מאַמעס, שװעסטער און חבֿרטעס. אַפֿילו װען תּחינות זענען אָנגעשריבן געװאָרן פֿון מענער לטובֿת פֿרױען נעמען זיי אַרײַן וויכטיקע פּרטים װעגן װײַבערשע דאַגות און האָפֿענונגען.
װײַזער און פֿלײַשמאַן האָבן געלײענט אַ סך תּחינות, און צוזאַמען האָבן זײ אָנגעשריבן דרײַ נײַע תּחינות פֿאַר דער אָפּערע — װאָס האָבן צו טאָן מיטן צוגרײטן חלה, מיטן בענטשן שבת־ליכט און מיטן גײן אין דער מיקװה. די דאָזיקע נײַע תּחינות זינגט מען טײלװײַז אױף ייִדיש.
װײַזער האָט צוגעגעבן, אַז זײ האָבן אַרײַנגענומען תּחינות כּדי אָפּצוגעבן כּבֿוד דער װײַבערשער פֿרומקײט, װאָס האָט פֿאַרהײליקט די ייִדישע הײם און דאָס טאָג־טעגלעך לעבן. „אין דער אָפּערע זעט מען די שײנקײט, די װאַרעמקײט און די שׂימחה װאָס פֿרױען האָבן געשאַפֿן אין זײער װעלט“, האָט װײַזער געזאָגט. „איך װיל נישט זאָגן צו פֿיל װעגן דעם סיפּור־המעשׂה, אָבער דער װײַבערשער כּוח — דער כּוח פֿון פֿרויען־טראַדיציעס — איז אַ װיכטיקער טײל פֿון אונדזער אָפּערע“.
דאָ קען מען קױפֿן בילעטן פֿאַר „טבֿיהס טעכטער“.
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