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We are excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2020 Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellowship. Each year since 2013, the Fellowship has brought together a cohort of Yiddish translators with...

Join JNS for a special live video 2019 Israel Elections 2.0 broadcast Filmed in front of a live audience from the Kirk Douglas Theater at the Aish World Center just outside the Western Wall plaza of Jerusalem’s Old City September...

ARE YOU AN ADVENTUROUS THEATER LOVER? SUPPORT OUR MOST CREATIVE ARTISTS AND CREATORS Target-Margin's Doxsee Theater is leading the cultural revitalization of Brooklyn's Sunset Park, and has long supported an up and coming generation of theater...

The international grassroots organization Combat anti-Semitism (CAS) has announced its upcoming “Venture Creative Contest,” which will give away more than $100,000 in awards. “Our idea is to motivate and provide opportunity for individuals and organizations...

More than 250 Nigerian youth and 20 adults gathered in Onithsa from Aug. 18-25 for a national week-long Jewish leadership and learning seminar organized by the Jerusalem-based Shavei Israel organization, activist and educator Danny...

A panel organized by the Israeli-American Council of New York brought four millennial leaders together in Manhattan to grapple with anti-Semitism on the mode they use most often: social media. The event, which took place...

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella group with 53 member organizations, has selected William Daroff as its next CEO, JNS has learned. Currently senior vice president for public policy and...

The Jewish community in and outside South Florida raised more than $2 million for a young couple in Aventura, Fla., to be able to afford the world’s most expensive treatment—a $2.1 million drug called...

The League for Yiddish is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Executive Director, to begin in February 2020. The position is currently part-time, with the possibility of full-time, given the creation of additional initiatives,...

The Benyumen Shekhter Foundation for the Advancement of Standard Yiddish is now accepting grant proposals. We are seeking well-structured initiatives that encourage people to actively speak, read and write in Yiddish. Previous projects have included online...