Yiddish is a familiar presence in contemporary English speech. Many people use or at least know the meaning of words like chutzpah (audacity), schlep (drag) or nosh (snack). These words have been ...

Nowadays Roth makes a point of involving himself in Jewish campus life — all forms of it. He spent Rosh Hashanah with the ...

On a quiet corner of the internet, a new website asks us to listen. That site — “ — is more than a digital exhibit; it’s an act of cultural restitution. Each page restores the sound, movement and ...

As one of NPR’s “founding mothers” in the 1970s, she helped shape the network’s personality: warm, liberal-leaning, and ...

As he often does these days, Wesleyan University president Michael Roth recently delivered a lecture on another campus ...