The Yiddish word "vants" means bedbug. What's False However, "Vance" and "vants" are not necessarily pronounced the same. After former U.S. President Donald Trump announced Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his ...

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 ...

People are responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs for Gaza was released in Yiddish, a language nearly eradicated through genocide.

The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary in the aftermath of World War II. By Rob Tannenbaum Arguments, on topics ...