Jewish World

Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of Gilmore Girls, has gifted us with the Jewish feminist show we need right now. The protagonist is Miriam (Midge) Maisel, a 26-year-old Jewish housewife living on the Upper West Side...

You can be in New York, California,  Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Russia, Ukraine ... or Zanzibar Dear Friends, Just wanted to let you know that I will be teaching 3 online Yiddish classes this...

Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, head of the organized crime death squad Murder, Inc. during the 1930s and the only major mob boss to be executed for a specific murder, was born on this date in...

A Muslim mob stormed the royal palace in Granada, Spain on this date in 1066, crucified Joseph ibn Naghrela, the Jewish vizier to the Berber king, and massacred more than a thousand Jewish families....

Robert Capa, original name (Hungarian form) Friedmann Endre Ernő, (born 1913, Budapest, Hungary—died May 25, 1954, Thai Binh, Vietnam), photographer whose images of war made him one of the greatest photojournalists of the 20th...

Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, known as the “Maharal” of Prague, died on this date in 1609. Legend and literature credit him with constructing and animating the Golem in order to protect and serve...

Jewish cuisine has evolved over many centuries. Much of #Jewish cuisine has been influenced by agriculture, tradition, and economic ebbs and flows. The many countries where Jewish communities have settled throughout the world play...

Moshe taught Bnei-Yisrael how to truly understand each Mitzvah regardless of its “weight” and importance. The laws of our Miztvot are profound and follow a simple rule called “Kalah KeVaChamurah” (“קלה כבחמורה”), meaning each...

Der Rebbe Elimelekh 25 versions from all over the world presented by SaveTheMusic. "Der Rebbe Elimelekh" is a Yiddish song written in 1927 by Moyshe Nadir and loosely based on the song Old King Cole. 1....

I travel the world. When someone mentions Asia, I immediately conjure up mystical India. Falling in love with "Incredible India," as the its own ministry of tourism puts it, is not difficult, even though the...