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Yiddish Words of the Week – Cleaning the Kitchen מ‫ע רייניקט די קיך –...

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It’s that time of year again. Spring! Pre-Peysekh! After a long winter, everyone is cleaning their kitchen. The oven and fridge are both very dirty and need to be scrubbed and cleaned. The sink...

ייִדיש לעבט אין טעקסאַס: אַן אומגעריכט לשון רײַט נאָך אַלץ דעם בראָנקאָ

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דער אַמעריקאַנער שטאַט טעקסאַס באַרימט זיך מיט קנאַפּע קלישעען — קאַובױס, ראָדעאָס — נאָר פֿאַקטיש האָט ער אַ לאַנגע געשיכטע פֿון קולטורעלער און שפּראַכלעכער פֿילמיניקײט, אָנהייבנדיק מיט אײַנגעבױרענע לשונות װי קאָמאַנטשע, ליפּאַן־אַפּאַטשע און שפּעטער אַפֿראָ־סעמינאָל־קרעאָלן. הײַנט רעדן אַ פֿערטל...
Men during the morning prayer service on Nov. 17, 2009. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

From strength to strength!

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There have been a variety of inquiries and investigations into the reasons that Israel was so shockingly vulnerable to the unprecedented terrorist attack by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. The Israel Defense Forces, Shin...

Call From the World Jewish congress International Yiddish Center

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The Yiddish language and culture are an integral part of the spiritual heritage of the Jewish people. For approximately 800 years, Yiddish was the language spoken by the majority of European Jews and Jewish...

100 years after its founding, can a Yiddish institute serve a people who don’t...

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The YIVO institute, an archive, library and research institution on Eastern European Jewish civilization, recently encountered a novel problem in its 100 year history. In its early days in Europe, the Institute for Jewish Research...
The tabernacle in the wilderness. Credit: Library of Congress.

God in a box

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Martha Goldberg was a middle-aged Jewish woman from the Bronx, N.Y., on her visit to the Far East. After the long trip from New York, she was exhausted but insisted on continuing her journey...
From left, JNS CEO Alex Traiman, Palestinian activist Samer Sinijlawi and Aish's Rabbi Daniel Rowe at the Bridges of Light interfaith dialogue encounter at Aish in Jerusalem, March 5, 2025. Photo by Jacob Zaldin/Aish.

Jewish educational center hosts multi-faith dialogue in Jerusalem

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A global Jewish educational center based in Jerusalem hosted Muslim, Christian and Jewish community leaders this week, seeking to bring together moderate religious figures in a push for coexistence. Wednesday's night meeting, titled Bridges of...
A view of St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican City. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Why the Catholic Church should recognize Israel as the inheritance of the Jewish people

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I am currently at the Vatican with Gary Krupp of the “Pave the Way Foundation” to engage with high-ranking Catholic leaders. Krupp has spent his life building bridges between the church, the Jewish community...
Boys in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea She'arim recite the "Shema Yisrael" prayer in the presence of a week-old baby, a day before his circumcision ceremony, July 9, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Top baby names in Israel biblical, data over seven decades shows

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On March 9, 1950, Iraq’s Chamber of Deputies and Senate approved the "Supplement to Ordinance Cancelling Iraqi Nationality" law. It stipulated that Jews could leave the country, on condition they renounce their citizenship and their...
A 2,000-year-old silver coin found in debris from an excavation in the City of David, Jerusalem. The inscription reads, "Shekel Yisrael." Above the chalice are the Hebrew letters "shin" and "bet," an acronym for "Shana Bet," or year two of the Jewish revolt against Rome. Credit: Eliyahu Yanai/City of David.

Jews and Zionism: An ancient bond

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How old is the concept of Zionism? It did not emerge in 1947 from the U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181 Partition Plan, as those who try to weaponize Zionism would have you believe. It did not emerge...