My entire life has been lived on the fly. I was only 17 when I first heard the old Yiddish proverb, “If you want to make God laugh, just tell him your plans.” That’s the Woody Allen-ized version of ...

An old Yiddish proverb says: “Der mentsh trakht, un Got lakht.” Translated into English: “Humans plan, and God laughs.” Benjamin Netanyahoo said it was a successful and righteous operation! Pete ...

A GRIP ON SPORTS • It’s always illuminating when spring’s volatile weather illustrates the truism about plans, laughter and the Almighty. • Major golf tournaments are planned to the minute. So are ...

Markets experienced massive volatility in April, with the NASDAQ and Russell 2000 briefly entering bear market territory before snapping back violently later in the month. One month after 'Liberation ...

MEYER MEYER by Helen Hudson. 189 pages. Dutton. $4.50. Far der velt muz men mer yoytse zayn vi far Got aleyn, says the Yiddish proverb. “The world is more exacting than God himself.” It is a maxim ...

When Jewish prisoners were interned during the Holocaust, the Yiddish language went through a metamorphosis — changing and expanding to include new words about their brutal everyday existence. What ...

Evolution is a process that can take many millennia, if not longer. For a scholarly organization like the Yiddish archive and cultural institution YIVO, the process only took a century. YIVO (the ...

Some years ago, at the annual P.S. 3 book fair, I came across a Yiddish-English dictionary. This was a more serious Yiddish-English dictionary than the somewhat antic one I owned called “Dictionary ...

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 ...

It’s what we often say when we bear witness to others facing tragedy, difficulty, or misfortune. But as the Yiddish proverb goes, “You plan, God laughs,” because life has a funny way of showing us ...

We know the old Yiddish proverb: "Man plans, God laughs ... especially when a Manning is the backup quarterback." The last time a Manning was the backup was 2004, when Eli was a rookie with the New ...