Daily Archives: February 10, 2026
A Brief History of Yiddish Dictionaries: Ilan Stavans in Conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
INTRODUCTION
In the constellation of Jewish languages (from Judeo-Spanish, aka Ladino, and Judeo-Portuguese to Hybriya, aka Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian, and not counting biblical and Modern Hebrew), Yiddish, or Judeo-German, is unquestionably the most popular. Its...
And what do you think? Should she be considered an antisemite because she does...
When the White House Religious Liberty Commission gathered in Washington on Monday for the body’s first public hearing focused on antisemitism, attendees expected an informative if subdued meeting, meant to gather testimony from Jewish...
Yiddish theater is revived in Tbilisi, Georgia after 100 years
When Lasha Shakulashvili was a grad student at Tbilisi State University in 2019, he stumbled onto something unbelievable. In the National Archives of Georgia, he found Yiddish posters from 1910 announcing theater performances put...
American Decency Still Lives
If you want to accomplish anything in politics, you have to have realistic expectations about voters. Ordinary people aren’t deeply informed about policy or politics. They have jobs to do, children to raise, lives...
What’s worst, the racist old Jordanian law or the new right-wing israeli rule?
Years of uncompromising activism, hundreds of Knesset committee hearings, fact-finding fieldwork and exacting research, mapping and analysis culminated in today’s security cabinet announcement of a series of dramatic and decisive decisions – some of...
New Investigation And Film Examine UNRWA Education And Refugee Narrative In Gaza
A new investigative film and research initiative is set to examine the role of the United Nations Relief and Works gency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, known as UNRWA, with a focus...
ISGAP Rejects Columbia University’s Denial of Findings on Qatari Funding and Calls for Full...
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) rejects Columbia University’s dismissal of ISGAP’s research into undisclosed Qatari-linked funding and has called on the University to publicly disclose all foreign-sourced funding,...
19 Jewish and Israeli athletes to watch at the 2026 Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics are always a whirlwind: new sports, unfamiliar names, and suddenly you’re emotionally invested in someone you met 12 seconds ago, Googling “what is a good time in skeleton.”
At the 2026 Winter...