Tehila, the Kosher Diva, has posted Gefilte Fish, a video parody of the Disney Little Mermaid song Under the Sea just in time for us to share it with you as another funny Rosh Hashanah video.
But just who is Tehila, the Kosher Diva? She is 34-year-old Yael Yekel, a fun and flirty Israeli actor-singer.
As Renee Ghert-Zand wrote in The Times of Israel,
Through her kitschy character, Yekel is on a mission to make the mammeloshen relevant and accessible to younger generations.
“I grew up with secular kibbutznik parents. I only heard Yiddish spoken by my grandparents — Holocaust survivors from Poland and Lithuania who helped found Kibbbutz Lohamei HaGeta’ot in northern Israel — when they didn’t want us to understand what they were saying,” Yekel told The Times of Israel.
When not portraying the Kosher Diva, Yekel acts on stage and in commercials and television shows. Her studies at the Beit Zvi School of the Performing Arts focused on musical theater, through which she first became engaged with Yiddish.
Enjoy!
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