Folklore scholar Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett doesn’t remember interviewing and recording the Yiddish folksinger Rose Cohen ...

Join Theatre Ariel for a comedic and poignant play, “Marsha Blovotnick and the Marvelous Magical Chicken Soup.” ...

Sarah Seltzer’s debut novel is full of familial drama, rock music history and lots of Yiddishkeit. Some of the most iconic American folk singers of the 1960s and ’70s were Jewish: Bob Dylan, Paul ...

On January 19, 2025, the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a concert — Soul to Soul. It will feature Yiddish folk ...

Ah, Lilith. She's the name that's lingered in whispers for centuries. According to the Jewish Women’s Archive, Lilith’s ...

The actor is teaming up with co-scribes Ben and Max Berkowitz and artist Ariel Olivetti on the Dark Horse mini-series. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Some years ago, Josh Gad received an out of the ...

TEN YEARS AGO, Sarah Morse saw a puppeteer in Germany perform the Creation story. Hiding behind a screen and wearing black gloves, "The puppeteer's hands came down like the hands of God, folding ...

This month’s column features Jewish folklore and books about Jewish characters. Cinderella fans might enjoy Nina Jaffe’s “The Way Meat Loves Salt” and Erica Silverman’s “Raisel’s Riddle.” Like “The ...

Though Jews have famously written many of today’s popular Christmas songs, there’s an additional layer of characteristically Jewish irony in hearing those tunes sung in Yiddish — the widespread ...