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La istoria de los djudios de Trikala en Gresia
La sivdad de Trikala, en Gresia, ke es menos konosida por su komunidad djudia, es una de las mas antiguas de este paiz. Segun istoriadores eya fue fondada en el 4en siglo antes de...
Jerry Springer: ‘Trump has no business being president!’
While the US election campaign was still in full swing, Jerry Springer was unrepentant in his opinion of then-candidate Donald Trump.
“He’s dangerous”, the 73-year-old presenter lashed out. “He’s a very bad example of what...
Microsoft signs deal to buy US-Israeli startup Cloudyn
Microsoft on Thursday confirmed it acquired based Cloudyn, a startup headquartered in Boston with offices in the Israeli town of Rosh Ha’ayin that has developed technology to monitor and optimize cloud storage. No financial...
Yiddish-English Dictionary
The League for Yiddish is pleased to announce that we are now selling the newly published Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary. Editors-in chief – Solon Beinfeld and Harry Bochner; associate editors – Barry Goldstein and Yankl...
Israel, Jordan part of new, developing US-Russia deal on Syria ceasefire
The United States and Russia have reached agreement on a cease-fire in southwest Syria, three US officials said Friday as President Donald Trump held his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The deal marks...
New anthology of contemporary Yiddish poetry
די סעריע „ביבליאָטעק פֿון דער הײַנטצײַטיקער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור‟, וואָס ווערט אַרויסגעגעבן דורך דער „נאַציאָנאַלער אינסטאַנץ פֿאַר ייִדישער קולטור‟ אין ישׂראל, איז שוין אַן עיקרדיקער פּראָיעקט פֿונעם הײַנטיקן ייִדיש־שפּראַכיקן דרוקוועזן.
במשך פֿון די לעצטע פּאָר יאָר...
Kafe d’alegria
Uno de los simbolos de la kultura turka es el "kafe turko" ke oy ya es konosido en el mundo entero. Ma, kon el dezvelopamiento de la gastronomia mundiala, de mizmo ke munchos platos...
Faith in the classroom
In April, a group calling itself the Forum of Secular Parents accused the Education Ministry of introducing Jewish faith into secular elementary schools. The forum presented the Education Ministry with a long list of...
American Jewish converts ‘hurt’ and ‘humiliated’ by conversion bill
Growing up in the panhandle of West Virginia, Jen Halpern, born Jennifer Davis, had never met a Jew. She had been raised in what she calls a “typical American Christian household.” Yet at 22...
Earliest mosaic of Jonah and the whale found in Galilee synagogue
Unprecedented depictions of the biblical Jonah and the whale have been found at a fifth-century Roman synagogue in Israel’s lower Galilee. In the recently discovered mosaic, Jonah’s legs are shown dangling from the mouth...