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Yiddish Song Workshop and Sing-along led by Binyumen Schaechter Via Zoom This coming Monday, November 9 7 p.m. Eastern Time With Schaechter at the piano, we’ll learn to sing a few selected Yiddish songs – lyrics provided. We’ll...

געקליבענע אַרטיקלען פֿונעם זשורנאַל אויפֿן שוועל פֿון שבֿע צוקער On the Other Side of the Threshold Selected Articles from the Magazine Afn Shvel by Sheva Zucker "The essays gathered in this volume convey their author’s extraordinary energy and passionate commitment to...

דער „אַרבעטער־רינג“ אָרגאַניזירט אַ חנוכּה־שׂימחה, וווּ זינגער און אַקטיאָרן פֿון פֿאַרשידענע לענדער וועלן זיך באַטייליקן אין אַ זינגערײַ. כּדי דער עולם זאָל מיטזינגען, וועט מען ווײַזן די ווערטער צו די לידער אויף ייִדיש און ענגליש...

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Join us for a live evening of readings and performances. The title for our upcoming zoom live stream is taken from one of the pieces that will be featured during this Wednesday's event. Written by...

“Novelty” musician Mickey Katz, who specialized in Jewish parodies of American classics (such as “Haym afn Range” and “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Katzkills”), died at 75 in Los Angeles on this date in 1985. Katz...

Ek Velt - An Incredible Dream At The Far Reaches Of The World< ק װעלט׃ די פֿאַרכאַפּנדיקע מעשׂה פֿון ייִדיש אין ביראָבידזשאַן Please join us for the fascinating story of Birobidzhan — a remote and forbidding...

Join Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Forverts, as she explores the growing interest in Yiddish music, with singers Lorin Sklamberg, Daniel Kahn, Sarah Gordon, Michael Alpert and folksong maven Itzik Gottesman – and hear...

Oif der yidisher gas in Meksike - a spetsyele trefung mit Sophie Rubinstein In spite of the fact that Mexico was a melting pot for Jewish immigrants coming from different parts of the Diaspora, little...

The Report of the Board of Auditors to the President of the UN General Assembly dated July 24, 2019 disclosed an UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near...