Arts & Culture

Era elevo,apenas tenia kinze anyos, Su kara triste,su vistimienta de vyejos panyos, Kaminava para vender kozas a kriaturas Bonbones,djugetes,balas,lapes i minyaturas. Desde su chikes ke kedo sin arimo,sin padre Bivia una vida modesta djuntos su madre. Un dia se sintyo...

Glikl bas Judah Leib, or Glückel of Hameln, a diarist whose writings in Yiddish provided scholars with an intimate picture of German Jewish ghetto life in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, died on this...

A yellow teddy bear hangs from the ceiling. With a patterned parachute attached to its tiny body, it hangs, midflight, amid a cacophony of other creatures like a stuffed lion, a stuffed moose, a...

אויף דער הייאָריקער ייִדיש־וואָך, אין קאָפּייק, נ״י, האָט רות כּהן, אַ פּראָפֿעסיאָנעלע ייִדישע איבערזעצערין און פֿאַרטײַטשערין, אויפֿגעטראָטן אויף דער יערלעכער טאַלאַנטאַרניע מיט אַ ריי ייִדישע וויצן, וואָס האָבן געהאַט אין זיך דעם טראַדיציאָנעלן איראָנישן חן פֿון דעם מיזרח־אייראָפּעיִשן ייִדישן הומאָר

There is nothing like good art and good humor to raise your spirits! Rafael Mareyna has a knack for combining both with a twinkle in his eye. One can see that humor at Casa...

Prehistoric human beings collected and recycled old tools, possibly to preserve their ancestors’ memory, according to scientists at Tel Aviv University who examined flint tools from 500,000 years ago found at an archeological site...

Sephardic Jews who were expelled in the late 15th century  from Portugal and Spain learned about cocoa and the production of chocolate from the indigenous peoples of Central and South America and the Caribbean. Keeping...

Editor’s Note: Maile Faust, a junior at Francis Parker School, wrote this poem inspired by Elie Wiesel’s “Night,’ during her freshman year.  Her family is of mixed Jewish-Christian ancestry. Maile has seven years of...

Jewish actress, director and social activist Natalie Portman is the winner of the 2018 Genesis Prize, the Genesis Prize Foundation announced on Tuesday. The annual $1 million award, dubbed “the Jewish Nobel” by Time Magazine,...

Israel’s largest auction house, the Tiroche Auction House, will put “Jacob’s Ladder”—a painting by the world-renowned Jewish artist Marc Chagall—up for sale on Jan. 25. This will be the first time that a Chagall...