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

Ka’s music steers clear of nostalgia. She speaks with playful candor about her dislike of traditional klezmer, preferring ...

“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 ...

Mikhl Yashinsky's translation of the Max Spitzkopf stories offers a glimpse at the popular reading of Jews in the early 20th ...

The rivals see political benefit to the attacks, which could also define New York for the remainder of President Donald Trump ...

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

Dida Berku was 23 years old when she first got involved in municipal matters. Now, at 74, she reflects on battles won, lost ...

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

They managed to meet in person several times — exchanging words in the yard, and at least once sneaking ... “Hannah Senesh,” starring Jennifer Apple and presented by the National Yiddish Theater ...

Rebbetzin Rochele Fogelman, a pioneering Shlucha and master educator in Worcester, Massachusetts, for 78 years, passed away ...

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 ...