The installation in Munich is an ill-conceived attempt to honor the Jewish humor of millions of Yiddish speakers murdered by ...

The Yiddish word chutzpah is sometimes defined as when a man who has killed both his parents pleads for mercy on the grounds ...

Zohran Mamdani’s opponents have portrayed his Democratic Socialists of America affiliation as unusual, but he is not the first New York politician — or would-be mayor — with ties to the group.

New books and a National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene play reclaim the poet-parachutist for an era marked by antisemitism and ...

“Got zol okhitn dir”—“May God protect you.” She said these words to people and to animals alike. My childhood friend Dima ...

People stumble over this casserole dish by saying koo-gel or kyoo-gel, adding syllables that don’t belong. The authentic pronunciation is KOO-gel or KOO-gl, short and sweet with the emphasis on that ...

A one-woman Off Broadway show, “Hannah Senesh,” starring Jennifer Apple and presented by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene ... literature and the arts but also her struggles to find meaning in a ...

Israel, in many ways, is the living embodiment of emunah. Surrounded by enemies, tested again and again, it remains alive, ...

Both kinds are on the rise, and feed on each other. But real antisemitism is growing—and the prime minister of Israel and the military policies of that nation are the prime source of its revival.

Rabbi Jill Jacobs also openly backed Lander in the primary without offering similar support for Mamdani. While she declined ...

His opponents seized on Islamophobic attacks in the final weeks of the campaign. But Muslim Americans say his perseverance ...

Before the Hamas attacks of October 7, the term genocide – literally meaning the destruction of a race – held a position as the gravest crime a state could commit. It meant Rwanda, Srebrenica and, of ...