Miriam Udel's "Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature" shows how stories shaped a Jewish identity for young people.
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 ...
The Foundry presents “‘Ethereal,” a night of cosmic camp and otherworldly comedy with Bohemian drag Superstar Tammie Brown.
The show has a “deep sense of certain kinds of Jewish language and knowledge that is sometimes absent in some treatments of U ...
On Sukkot, we strengthen our local communities, hosting elaborate meals with relatives and friends and leaving one wall of the sukkah open, symbolizing hospitality. Sukkot also invokes the Jewish comm ...
Shakespeare & Company hosts a weekend of staged readings Oct. 10-12, celebrating Jewish stories and playwrights from Arthur ...
The Yiddish Book Center will welcome Polish Jewish author and photographer Mikołaj Grynberg for an event on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. The program, “Jewish Poland Today: […] ...