Naomi Handwerger
By Naomi Handwerger
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Yiddish World Being pro-Israel is taboo among my fellow students on Instagram
Teenagers today, like many adults, seem to have become obsessed with Israel and Israeli politics. Last May, when a ceasefire was called after 11 days of fighting in Israel, my fellow students at Columbia Secondary School in Manhattan, who had never posted anything about Israel on Instagram, were suddenly spokespeople for the “anti-Israel movement.” As…
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Yiddish World How this NYC high school student came to Yiddish
Read this article in Yiddish To be honest, I was never interested in learning Yiddish. Before the pandemic, it was a dead language to me, something that my parents and grandparents spoke, and before that – my great-grandparents. I have Israeli family, so Hebrew is familiar to me. Yiddish is not. I could understand enough…
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