How young people once used Yiddish personal ads to find a partner
One ad was from a foreman's assistant, who hoped to open his own factory with the help of his future bride’s dowry
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Fast Forward Far-right Polish lawmaker draws outrage after calling Israel the ‘new Third Reich’
Konrad Berkowicz held up a modified Israeli flag that replaced the Star of David with a blue swastika during Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Yiddish World When roast goose was a Hanukkah delicacy, and latkes were fried in its schmaltz
They were slaughtered before Hanukkah in order to render enough fat to last through the winter, when butter was scarce.
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Yiddish World Yiddish life in prewar Eastern Europe comes alive on this website
Through photos, maps and many short essays, its pages are not static memorials, but invitations to explore
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Yiddish World How this Jewish day school teaches students about the Holocaust
Students at the Ramaz Middle School view a map in English and Yiddish, as well as artifacts contributed by community members
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Twelve popular Ashkenazi dishes, made gluten-free
These Yiddish cooking demos with English subtitles are handy for anyone with celiac or sensitivity to gluten
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Culture 100 years collecting Jewish history, 24 million artifacts and only 3 rooms to fit it in
3 exhibits at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research highlight what was lost, and what was miraculously saved
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News Pro-Nazi singer sells out Zagreb arena as Croatia’s collaborationist past sheds its taboo
Croatian Jews say little effort is made to tamp down valorization of the brutal Ustaše collaborationist regime
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