Daily Archives: January 12, 2026
No postwar role for Bangladesh in Gaza
Bangladeshi officials issued statements on Jan. 10 saying that their military should be deployed as part of the planned “International Stabilization Force” in the Gaza Strip. They also claimed that their national security adviser,...
ICE Out for Good Weekend of Action — The Workers Circle
ICE Out for Good Weekend of Action
Friday, January 9, 2026 6:00 PM
Sunday, January 11, 2026 7:00 PM
Across the country at various times, Saturday, January 10 and Sunday, January 11
On Wednesday, January 7th, an American...
One Yiddish Theater – Night Stories: 4 Tales of Reanimation
In a last-ditch effort to get you to see our show, Avrom Sutzkever’s NIGHT STORIES: 4 Tales of Reanimation (brought to you by the same team that brought you last year’s hit BASHEVIS’S DEMONS: 3...
Poem by Poem, Fable by Fable, Discovering My Father and Learning His Language —...
Poem by Poem, Fable by Fable, Discovering My Father and Learning His Language
Sunday, January 18, 2026
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
In this presentation, Anna Miransky will speak about her book, Poem by Poem, Fable by...
Teens, seniors explore Ashkenazi traditions at Yiddish New York festival
A group of klezmer musicians was jamming in Lower Manhattan, when its fiddler suddenly stopped and encouraged a preteen clarinetist to lead a tune. After a moment, the young musician began playing a traditional...
‘Faust’ author Goethe’s fascination with Yiddish
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is usually remembered as a towering figure of European culture: poet, playwright, scientist, and all-around genius of the Enlightenment.
His drama Faust opens with a scene that echoes the Book of Job,...
Yiddish with Rukhl — A Forverts Podcast
Beginning in the 1920s and ‘30s, Yiddish radio connected Jews worldwide. In New York City, the Jewish Daily Forverts’ station WEVD — known as “the station that speaks your language” — hosted a wide...
Virginia-based Yiddishists lead first Yiddish festival in Richmond
Virginia’s capital city is having a few big inaugurals this January. Not only will Richmond see the state’s first female governor installed; it will also be seeing the state’s first-ever Yiddish cultural festival.
Richmond Yiddish...