{"id":34082,"date":"2026-03-04T08:47:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=34082"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:07:52","slug":"panama-youngstown-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/04\/panama-youngstown-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"PANAMA \/ YOUNGSTOWN \/ FLORIDA"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nYiddishe Cup\u2019s violinist, Steve Greenman, flew back from Panama City, where he recently played a wedding gig. That\u2019s class and must be noted. Steve<\/a> is one of the world\u2019s top klezmer violinists.<\/p>\n

Then a couple nights later, he played — with Yiddishe Cup — a gig in Youngstown, Ohio, a town that gets\u00a0 an end-of-the-world rap. But note, Youngstown has a Classic Reform shul built in 1915. Congregation Ohev Beth Sholom. It’s like a miniature The Temple, Cleveland (now the Maltz Performing Arts Center).<\/p>\n

Elyria, Erie, New Castle, Sharon, Warren, Canton, Lorain, Akron. Yiddishe Cup has played them all. Many of these Rust Belt shuls are history.<\/p>\n

Youngstown\u2019s Ohev Beth Sholom has about 300 families, down from its peak in 1967 when it had 710 families and 395 kids in the religious school. There are a lot of yahrzeit plaques on the walls there.<\/p>\n

At Yiddishe Cup’s Ohev Beth Sholom gig, a former Shaker Heights resident described her move to Youngstown as a \u201creverse exodus.\u201d She said, \u201cYou can get everywhere here in eight minutes. Friendly people, too.\u201d She married a doctor from Youngstown.<\/p>\n

Yiddishe Cup’s most successful Y-town gig was more than 30 years ago at Temple El Emeth. The rabbi at El Emeth went on to become the head rabbi at a Boca Raton synagogue, and he brought Yiddishe Cup to Florida twice. Dead of winter both times. Nice.<\/p>\n

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Congregation Ohev Beth Sholom (formerly Rodef Sholom). Youngstown<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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