When Lasha Shakulashvili was a grad student at Tbilisi State University in 2022, he stumbled onto something unbelievable. In ...

Steven Skybell discusses playing Tevye, antisemitism, and why “Fiddler on the Roof” feels urgent as Austin Opera stages the classic.

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember that the conditions that made Auschwitz possible did not vanish with ...

Ruth Wisse intends to discuss the “blue and white” within the “red, white and blue.”The post Noted Yiddish scholar to deliver NEH lecture appeared first on JNS.org.

Yad Menachem has published Umedayeik BaMaamar, a publication of Basi Legani 5725 in the Rebbe’s original Yiddish wording, which is being studied in connection with Yud Shevat this year.

The Portland Art Museum’s historic Fields Ballroom hosts the 13 th annual print fair where visitors can view and buy prints from 16 top dealers. Choose from works by Old Masters to contemporary and ...

One of the most popular courses at New Lehrhaus, the Berkeley-based Jewish learning institute, uses a novel approach to understanding the Talmud: “Seinfeld.” “Whatever excites somebody’s curiosity is ...

Photo: Night Stories features Miryem-Khaye Seigel and Shane Baker. Photo courtesy of Jordan P. McAfee / Provided by press rep with permission. The new anthology play Night Stories adapts four stories ...

For Negin Nader Bazrafkan, Yiddish lessons have been an unexpected perk of moving into her Upper West Side apartment. Her roommate - and unofficial Yiddish teacher - is 96-year-old Rebecca Schull, a ...

Getting students to buy into the project of a course has become a more urgent challenge in recent years, many professors say. While many students are distracted by smart phones, tempted by generative ...

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 ...

On my mother’s side, they all spoke fluent Yiddish. Most of these conversations took place while eating moisture-free yellow pound cake and washing it down with warmed-up day-old Maxwell House Coffee.