Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably ...

Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, ‘you don’t have the full story.’ What do a leather medicine ball, a steamer ...

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 the Yiddish Brief, a newsletter in English about what’s happening in the Yiddish world today, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl ...

If I tell you that there are languages other than English that someone in America could live a whole life in, which would come to mind? Spanish, maybe? Chinese? Both are spoken in (among many other ...

A culture with no country is well-suited for people being rejected by theirs, writes the social justice organizer at the Workers Circle. (JTA) — Queer elders can be hard to find. There’s no app I ...

Re “Yiddish Is Having a Moment,” by Ilan Stavans (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 3): Every so often there appears to be a magical Yiddish sighting, usually by writers seeking to inform the world that ...

NEW YORK-- In a few weeks, a Broadway classic mired in tradition returns to the stage. "Fiddler on the Roof, in Yiddish" sold out shows in 2018 and was just about to tour the world in 2020 before the ...

NEW YORK - The Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center in the Bronx was defaced with paint and pro-Palestinian graffiti one week ago. In his first on-camera interview, the co-president of the center tells CBS ...

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