קומענדיק פֿון אַ ניט־פֿרומער סבֿיבֿה האָט זי אײַנגעזען אַז ייִדיש קען העלפֿן היילן איר עלנטקייט און פֿאַרלאַטען שפּאַרעס אין איר אידענטיטעט.
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The first step in successfully writing a historical opera is picking a historical figure who can hold the audience’s attention. The opera’s hero needs to have experienced a lot of drama that he can sing about with gusto and pathos; someone who’s played a pivotal role in…
In November 2016, just days after the election, Lili Shidlovski and her partner, Dennis Owen, sat across their kitchen table from a Guatemalan family. The man, who had been in the U.S. for a few years, spoke only a few words of English. His wife and 9-year-old son, who had just been released from a…
Reports that hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen is in talks to buythe New York Mets from the Wilpon family are likely a relief to fans of the troubled National League team. But they’re also a reminder: Jews are vastly represented among the ranks of sports owners. Out of 147 teams in the five major North…
אין דער באַקאַנטער סצענע פֿון ש. אַנ־סקיס פּיעסע רעדט לאה וועגן די גײַסטער פֿון די מענטשן, וואָס זענען פֿריצײַטיק געשטאָרבן.
די שוועדישע קאַפּעליע „סיראָקאָ‟ וועבט אַרײַן אַראַבישע השפּעות אין מאָריס ראָזענפֿעלדס אַרבעטער־קלאָגליד.
In the summer of 2014, my homeland was saturated with grief. It was the grief engendered by the loss of 531 children. The first three were Israeli. My cousin and neighbor, Mohammed Abukhdeir, was the fourth. Gaza would soon come to mourn 526 more. My life changed in unexpected ways after Mohammed’s murder. My family…
Today is International Ladino Day at the University of Washington in Seattle, where the seventh annual celebration of Ladino, the mother tongue of generations of Sephardic Jews, will take place. This year’s event theme is “De la fasha asta la mortaja: From the cradle to the grave.” The celebration comes at a critical time in…
Now that nearly three out of four marriages among non-Orthodox Jews are interfaith, 84% of new households that include at least one non-Orthodox Jew are interfaith households. That means that the future vitality of every aspect of liberal Judaism depends on engaging increasing numbers of interfaith families in Jewish life. Yet instead of discussion of…
A controversy involving a top campaign surrogate is proving to be a setback for Sen. Bernie Sanders as he works to earn more Jewish support ahead of the Iowa Democratic caucus, less than two months away. It’s the latest example of Sanders, the most successful Jewish presidential candidate in American history, drawing anger from Jewish…
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