A new book explores how, contrary to popular belief, Christmas was a festive time for Jewish men, who took time off from ...

Singer Shulem Lemmer performed at the White House Hanukkah event attended by President Trump, stunning those present with a ...

Born to a Christian mother, Rabbi Cody Bahir had a remarkable journey to the rabbinate that included receiving a post-doc in ...

The YIVO Institute looks at the Jewish “language war” in Palestine before the founding of the Jewish state. (New York Jewish Week) — Just before the end of the second millennium, Ezer Weizman, then ...

NEW YORK — Once upon a time, hearing Yiddish on the street corners of the Lower East Side was as ubiquitous as a chocolate egg cream. Not any more. “Russian is becoming the Yiddish of now. Russian is ...

Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. With wedding season upon us, it’s the ...

Mr. Stavans, a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a co-editor of the book “How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish.” For a language without a physical address that has ...

The Monty Pickle Show is a puppet comedy for kids, created by the producers of ‘Sesame Street‘ and ‘Fraggle Rock‘ ...

As a professional translator of Yiddish literature, I was surprised by the characterization of the Australian Jewish ...

Some years ago, at the annual P.S. 3 book fair, I came across a Yiddish-English dictionary. This was a more serious Yiddish-English dictionary than the somewhat antic one I owned called “Dictionary ...

If I tell you that there are languages other than English that someone in America could live a whole life in, which would come to mind? Spanish, maybe? Chinese? Both are spoken in (among many other ...