There’s an old British expression, “a curate’s egg.” The story goes that a couple once hosted their vicar for dinner and ...

Call me a softie, but I love a traditional Christmas Eve. If you don’t find me eating Chinese food and watching a movie, I might be catching Gotham Comedy Club’s “A Very Jewish Christmas!” show or ...

Richmond Yiddish Week runs Saturday, Jan. 10, through Friday, Jan. 16, with one event each day highlighting the historic vernacular and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. The festival includes performances by ...

The YIVO Institute looks at the Jewish “language war” in Palestine before the founding of the Jewish state. (New York Jewish Week) — Just before the end of the second millennium, Ezer Weizman, then ...

In April 2022, right after the COVID virus sequestered us all in our homes, the Forward staff huddled about what we could do ...

With the present dangers confronting the Jewish people, we are desperately in need of more stories about Jewish heroism. For that reason, it is especially well-timed that the Yiddish Book Center has ...

The Jewish Theological Seminary dips into its archives to show the political and cultural ferment of Jewish immigrants. And then there is the granddaddy (or should we say zayde) of them all, the ...

CHEYENNE — The annual Yiddish Food Festival is back in Cheyenne for its 18th year of celebrating Jewish culture through music, food and experiences this Sunday. Each year, Mount Sinai Synagogue brings ...

Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book Center when he asked if the center’s founder, Aaron Lansky, might fly out to Los Angeles and drop by his office. The filmmaker doesn’t ...

The cast of “The Last Yiddish Speaker” at the Proscenium Theatre at the Drake in Philadelphia. (Courtesy of The InterAct Theatre Company) The InterAct Theatre Co. is bringing a Jewish play, “The Last ...

During one of his visits as a clandestine “Nativ” emissary to the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, my father encountered an elderly Jew who quoted whole sections of the Bible and the Gemara by heart.

COPAKE, New York (Reuters) - Hebrew is the language of the state of Israel and the Bible, but a growing number of Jews around the world are reclaiming Yiddish as the language of their culture, ...