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

61A. TCHOTCHKE is a Yiddish word meaning “knickknack,” and a [Bobblehead, e.g.] fits right into that category. 63A. Please ...

NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani appeals to Hasidic voters in a Yiddish letter, seeking support from a key bloc amid controversy over his anti-Israel views.

Sandy Bonner expected the relationship questions. When the 70 year-old volunteered to put in a few shifts this fall as a ...

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 ...

Descendants of the founders still grace the pews of the temple Beth Israel, which was built to look like a church so it would ...

New chair Oliver Simons outlines his plans and discusses why the study of languages and literature is key today.

Among the songs that I remember from my parents’ collection of phonograph records of Yiddish folk music was a melancholy and ...

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 ...