Listen to Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Forverts, explore the growing interest in Yiddish music, with singers Lorin Sklamberg, Daniel Kahn, Sarah Gordon, Michael Alpert and folksong maven Itzik Gottesman – and hear them sing the songs that audiences love to hear. Rabbi Sandra Lawson, a chaplain at Elon University in North Carolina, and Tema Smith, a contributing columnist at The Forward, talked with Jodi Rudoren about the holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States, and how Jews are — and should and could be — marking it this year. |