Yiddishist San Diego organization now has a home
The new Yiddish cultural center will feature lectures, workshops, dramatic readings and exhibits.
Online Yiddish Hanukkah song workshop and sing-along
Besides teaching how to pronounce the lyrics, instructor Binyumen Schaechter will provide the songs’ musical, historical and linguistic nuances.
New edition of landmark English-Yiddish Dictionary includes “lockdown” and “breakout room”
Just as the late author had intended, its editors are determined to keep the Yiddish language current in today’s changing world.
VIDEO: Actor Jacob Lewin describes Yiddish cultural life in the Lodz ghetto
The Yiddish actor, Jacob Lewin, who lives in Los Angeles, is one of the few Jews left who actually remembers what life was like in the Lodz Ghetto.
Intensive beginners’ Yiddish class will use new prizewinning textbook
The book includes characters that represent the various types of people who speak and study Yiddish today, from Hasidim to Jews of color.
Watch: Learn to make bagels the old-fashioned way
By boiling the dough rings before baking them, these homemade bagels come out crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside.
Yiddish Word of the Day: The holiday of Sukkot
How does love compare to a sukkah? Learn this and other fun phrases and proverbs about the holiday.
VIDEO: How to Make Cabbage Strudel for Sukkot
As Rukhl and Eve make this Old World favorite, watch the dough become so thin you can see through it!
VIDEO: Discussion about the Borscht Belt and the rise of American Jewish comedy
Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter discusses this colorful chapter of Jewish history with Eddy Portnoy, Phil Brown and Aaron Bendich.
VIDEO: A Yom Kippur Tale by Sholem Aleichem (with English subtitles)
Actor Shane Baker tells the story of Meylekh the Cantor, who dies right after Yom Kippur, and how the townspeople perceive this.