When Lasha Shakulashvili was a grad student at Tbilisi State University in 2022, he stumbled onto something unbelievable. In ...
On Nov. 2, the 13th edition of the “What’s not to Like?” concert took place at Beth El Synagogue, just a short walk from East Campus. The event, centered around the theme of “Resistance and Freedom,” ...
RICHMOND, Va. — An upcoming festival invites Richmonders of all backgrounds to explore Yiddish language and culture. Richmond Yiddish Week runs Saturday, Jan. 10, through Friday, Jan. 16, with one ...
“This was the mecca of Yiddish culture other than New York in this country,” says David Weintraub, executive director of the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture, offering a surprising fact ...
Not so fast. A new special from Raanan Hershberg shows how charged times can make for funnier jokes involving anxiety over ...
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It’s not every day that you encounter a man in a Stetson hat singing Yiddish folksongs in the former capital of the Confederacy. Yet that wasn’t the most unexpected thing this reporter experienced ...
Students participating in the Helix Project perform a Yiddish song at a home in Studio City. If you ask American Jews, or really just most Americans, to picture what it was like to live as a Jew in ...
The founding of a research institute 100 years ago has helped to provide insight on Yiddish culture in the United States and around the world In 1947 New Jersey, leaders of the New York-based YIVO ...
Update on July 12, 2025: This story has been updated from its original version to reflect new developments in the saga of Yiddish at Brandeis. During a lull in the middle of a summertime shift at ...
Jewish delis are cornerstones of cultural identity and cuisine, but what are the dos and don'ts of ordering at one? Here's 12 ...
“Neshama,” Marcella Pixley’s lyrically written novel-in-verse, won the gold medal for Jewish children’s literature for middle ...