Michelle Krasovitski
By Michelle Krasovitski
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Fast Forward Does Wordle have you ‘farblundget’? Try these Hebrew and Yiddish versions.
(JTA) – There’s a good chance that when you logged on to Twitter today, you were met with tweets showing off grids of yellow, green and black squares. There’s also a good chance that you posted a similar grid. Many of the more than 2 million people who have taken to playing the Wordle word…
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Fast Forward From Judeo-Greek to Karaim, Oxford courses on 12 rare Jewish languages aim to keep heritages alive
(JTA) — In April, the language-learning app Duolingo added its 40th language to its program arsenal: Yiddish. A couple of decades ago, it would have been unthinkable for a mainstream non-Jewish language program to offer an expansive, comprehensive course in Yiddish. But Duolingo’s Yiddish addition only serves to reflect the increased global interest in learning…
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