Miriam Udel's "Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature" shows how stories shaped a Jewish identity for young people.
Do you like scary stories?” asks a character in Handkerchief, one of a series of interlocking tales from The Midnight ...
Sympathy with the Jews in Nazi-held Poland was demonstrated this Rosh Hashanah by Poles in Warsaw gathering in groups near ...
Even atheists can enjoy these secular Yiddish poems and their English translations, related to the Torah reading.
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon is a terribly fascinating book. I had heard about it a few years ago, but the specifics have been lost to memory. The other week I was walking to Little ...
New York City officials said on Wednesday they were working to address a rise in COVID-19 cases in parts of Brooklyn and Queens that was raising "a lot of concern." ...
Mordechi Rosenfeld, known as Modi, already has the synagogue crowd. Now he wants the “Goyim, gays and theys,” too.
Explore the YidLife Crisis and its unique take on Jewish culture in Sweden. Discover the comedy behind Yiddish heritage.
It was the release of the much-anticipated 12th issue of the Punks at the Beach zine series, titled “Wet.” When Ash and some other zinesters less familiar with the series asked what it was about, I ...