Students participating in the Helix Project perform a Yiddish song at a home in Studio City. If you ask American Jews, or really just most Americans, to picture what it was like to live as a Jew in ...

YiddishPOP, a free animated Yiddish language learning tool that has drawn much praise since its launch in June 2024, is now offering $500 grants to schools who use the program. Each episode in this ...

As many visitors to the Forverts (the Yiddish section of the Forward) know, you can get an immediate English translation to almost all words you find in the Yiddish-language articles. Just click on ...

If you’ve binged Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” with the rest of the Jewish community, you may be inspired to lean into your heritage and learn a bit more about Judaism. (Or, if you’re not Jewish, ...

Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe and Russia, was once nearly extinguished. But now Jews drawn to the language for different reasons are keeping Yiddish alive. Before World War II, some ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. The YIVO institute, an ...

For Michael Paul, anything worth doing is worth doing well. When he enters into a new opportunity, he gives it his all and often ends up in a keystone role. “I engage in any project, organization, ...

Before World War II, some 11 million people spoke Yiddish, the historic language of Ashkenazi Jews. The language nearly disappeared because of the Holocaust and assimilation, but experts are kvelling, ...