March 13, 1921: Al Jaffe, the cartoonist who made MAD magazine famous, was born
Al Jaffee, whose 64-year career with MAD magazine makes him its longest-running artist, was born in Savannah, Georgia on this date in 1921. He spent six years living in Lithuania in a Yiddish-speaking environment before returning...
Honoring the Jew who created Iran’s first English-Farsi dictionary
As most Americans focused on Super Bowl Sunday last month, nearly 600 Iranian Jews gathered at the West Hollywood Temple Beth El to mark 50 years since the death of Solaiman Haiim, one of...
Holocaust memorials set in pavement in Berlin in memory of Jews deported
Nearly 50 Holocaust stone memorials were recently set into the pavement around a major German publisher’s new main office in Berlin in honor of the dozens of Jews deported from the city in the 1940s.
Publisher Axel Springer...
Sick of (or now possibly from) Jewish dating? There’s another option …
Sick and tired of the Jewish dating scene?
You might still be tired of it, but at least this way, it won’t get you sick.
In response to fears about the potential spread of the coronavirus...
Netflix to release show about woman leaving Chassidic lifestyle, mainly in Yiddish
Netflix will release a new series on March 26 about a young woman in Brooklyn’s Chassidic Satmar community who leaves an unhappy and fulfilling marriage for a new start in Berlin.
“Unorthodox” is inspired by...
Jewish organizations, schools, communities institute action, even close due to coronavirus
As Jews around the world were celebrating Purim, the specter of life under a global epidemic in the form of the coronavirus (COVID-19) was becoming clearer and more concerning.
In a letter to supporters on...
A Yiddish rhyme advises how to avoid getting coronavirus (with audio)
מע קען זיך צוהערן צו אַנדערע אַרטיקלען פֿונעם פֿאָרווערטס פֿאָרגעלייענט דורך שׂרה־רחל שעכטער, ווי אויך אַנדערע פֿאָרווערטס־רעקאָרדירונגען, דורכן קוועטשן דאָ.
די נײַע וועלט־מגפֿה, און די מיטלען זיך צו באַוואָרענען פֿאַר איר, זענען בפֿירוש ערנסטע ענינים, בפֿרט...
March of the Living program in Poland postponed due to coronavirus
March of the Living, the largest annual international Holocaust-education program that takes groups to the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and then Israel, will not take place in this month because of concerns related...
Coronavirus outbreak forces American Jewish communities to reassess Purim festivities
Jews around the world are expected to gather in synagogues on Monday night to hear the story of Queen Esther and how the Jews of Persia were saved from annihilation.
That, however, was before the...
Hungarian Holocaust survivor turned Olympic gold medalist dies at age 92
Eva Szekely, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who later became an Olympics multiple award-winning swimmer, died on Feb. 29 the age of 92.
During World War II, fascist militants in Hungary came to take Szekely, then 17, away...