Teens, seniors explore Ashkenazi traditions at Yiddish New York festival
A group of klezmer musicians was jamming in Lower Manhattan, when its fiddler suddenly stopped and encouraged a preteen clarinetist to lead a tune. After a moment, the young musician began playing a traditional...
‘Faust’ author Goethe’s fascination with Yiddish
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is usually remembered as a towering figure of European culture: poet, playwright, scientist, and all-around genius of the Enlightenment.
His drama Faust opens with a scene that echoes the Book of Job,...
Yiddish with Rukhl — A Forverts Podcast
Beginning in the 1920s and ‘30s, Yiddish radio connected Jews worldwide. In New York City, the Jewish Daily Forverts’ station WEVD — known as “the station that speaks your language” — hosted a wide...
Virginia-based Yiddishists lead first Yiddish festival in Richmond
Virginia’s capital city is having a few big inaugurals this January. Not only will Richmond see the state’s first female governor installed; it will also be seeing the state’s first-ever Yiddish cultural festival.
Richmond Yiddish...
“יידישער אָפּטימיזם!” פֿון דער ליגע פֿאַר ייִדיש
דעצעמבער 2025/כּיסלו תּשפּ״ו
ליבע גוטע־פֿרײַנד,
איך ווער תּמיד באַגײַסטערט און אינספּירירט פֿונעם ייִדיש־אָפּטימיזם. אין 1979 האָט דער טאַטע, מרדכי שעכטער – דער דעמאָלטיקער אויספֿיר־סעקרעטאַר פֿון דער ייִדיש־ליגע – געשריבן אין אַ בריוו דער עקזעקוטיווע, ווען מ׳האָט געהאַלטן...
Belgian museum to keep art it says was stolen from Jews
Belgian museum to keep art it says was stolen from Jews
Jewish groups demand MSK Gent return a Nazi-looted painting, disputing unproven claims that the owner’s family was compensated.
Jewish organizations in Belgium on Monday demanded...
Freed hostages open Fashion Week in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv Fashion Week commenced on Sunday night after a two-year hiatus due to the war, with several captivity survivors and their family members being the first to stride down the runway.
Dani Miran, father...
‘Kosher Barbie’: Winning over hearts and minds in NYC
Raised in a Hasidic home in Jerusalem, Ayelet Raymond was taught that women's beauty should be concealed “like a precious diamond kept inside its box.”
Life, she explained, centered on good deeds and prayer, with...
‘Heroes of Liberty’ series pushes back against ‘woke ideology’ in children’s literature
Heroes of Liberty, a newly released book series for children, teaches values such as liberty and freedom amid what conservative columnist and commentator Bethany Mandel labels as a plague of “woke ideology” that is...
Israel unveils National Archaeological Database with some 4 million records
The Israel Antiquities Authority on Tuesday launched a digital platform centralizing all archaeological information collected and researched in Israel. The database currently contains 3,910,005 records, along with 964,393 objects, 1,223,552 images and 15,164 three-dimensional...