Kiryas Yoel Hatzoloh: Shut all synagogues, yeshivas, schools and mikvahs!
The announcement, in Yiddish, urges haredi Jews to immediately institute social distancing in their communities.
All YIVO online classes are now free of charge
As COVID-19 continues to affect individuals and societies around the world, the YIVO Institute for Jewish research has decided to offer all its online courses free of charge.
WATCH: Kids make homentashen in Yiddish
Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter shows a group of children how to make these Purim treats using traditional fillings like prune jam.
Book launch party for new volume of erotic Yiddish poetry
A selection of poems from Troim Katz Handler’s book, “Simkhe”, will be read and discussed in Yiddish and English.
New film highlights the poetry, art and personality of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
The film includes anecdotes from her son, the Forverts columnist Itzik Gottesman.
The 21st century’s first Yiddish TV show is here
Tomas Woodski travels to four countries to interview Yiddishists about their lives and the language that unites them.
WATCH: Honey balls and ginger candy
This dessert is a favorite of Chaya Palevsky, who was recently honored as one of the Forward 50.
New Volume of Erotic Yiddish Poems
The collection of Troim Katz Handler’s 63 poems portrays the sexual fantasies of a married woman, narrated through letters to a onetime lover.
Documentary portrays four generations of Jewish life in Lodz
The focus of the film is a still-life painting that hung in the same Lodz apartment for eighty years.
Baby boy born to klezmer star Daniel Kahn and his wife, Yeva Lapsker
This is the first child for Kahn, star of the hit video of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in Yiddish, and his wife, Yeva, a translator and dancer.
