Daily Archives: May 11, 2020

The Jewish state has long been no stranger to criticism and double standards in international bodies. For decades, the United Nations and its associated bodies have singled out Israel for criticism, while ignoring human-rights...

Since 1968, the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture has run every summer in New York City. Given the extraordinary circumstances of the current moment, we have decided to take the unprecedented...

{Originally posted to the author’s website} The Arabs` conflict with Israel and Zionism did not begin with a supposed conquest and occupation in 1967 nor was in 1948, the year of the creation of the state...

But creativity in Yiddish is never ending! A new song for our times אַ ליד פֿאַר אונדזערע צײַטן Lyrics: Hindy Nosek-Abelson ליריק׃ הינדי נאָסעק-אייבעלסאָן Singer: Lenka Lichtenberg זינגערין׃ לענקאַ ליכטענבערג Melody: Those Were the Days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-bKhA2-VrA&feature=youtu.be אַ מאָל געװען אַ צײַט פֿון הינדי נאָסעק-־אייבעלסאָן אַ מאָל...

  Over the weekends, I frequently attend an entrepreneurs’ group, basically a mutual support and education group for people starting or running their own businesses.  And lately, I have been thinking about the many different...