Tucked on the top floor of a warehouse in an ungentrified stretch of Long Island City, a block from the mouth of the Queens ...
Khantshe in Amerike’ was produced by, and starred Bessie Thomashevsky, grandmother of the late Michael Tilson Thomas ...
The film blends archival footage, original music and scholarly insight to bring to life a cultural legacy that continues to ...
I first fell in love with Jewish languages as a Fulbright fellow at Tel Aviv University. I was fascinated by the many languages that had converged in Israel: Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish, Darija, Russian, ...
Columnist Gilda Dangot-Simpkin writes of her mother, a Holocaust survivor from Poland who was filled with worldly advice.
Bechukosai. The sichos from these farbrengens span close to 1,000 pages in the Yiddish Hanochos (transcripts) in Sichos ...
For years, I polished the brass plaques in front of my apartment dedicated to a Jewish mother and daughter who were murdered by the Nazis. Then a message out of the blue connected me to a surviving ...
Gen Z popularizes “chutzpah,” a term for boldness or audacity which originated from Yiddish and Hebrew. Know what it means ...
A woman has slammed her friend for giving her daughter a disrespectful name - and she doesn't know how to tell her the ...
A woman has sparked a debate after sharing her concerns over a friend's controversial baby name choice, which 'doesn't ...
Raised in the Satmar Hasidic community, Perry Kay spent years leaving and returning before finally building a life on her own ...
Marilynn Malerba, the 18th chief of the Mohegan tribe and the first Native American to serve as treasurer of the United ...