You can now hear people speaking Yiddish in bars all over Berlin
A Yiddish conversation group meets biweekly at locations around the city. Other people think they’re speaking Swiss German.
A Yiddish conversation group meets biweekly at locations around the city. Other people think they’re speaking Swiss German.
The teacher says he's not upset by 'ignorant comments' from a child, but worries that without intervention, the hate will 'fester'
History cuts a love story short in a film about the student uprisings that rocked Poland in 1968
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…
This is an open letter from the dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of American Jewish University in Los Angeles, Rabbi Bradley S. Artson. It comes in response to a letter signed by scores of rabbinic and cantorial students at Ziegler and other schools, which the Forward published on May 13. Dear Hevrei,…
This summer journalism students from the School of the New York Times interviewed Holocaust survivors to help preserve their stories and to learn about that fading period in history. With attacks on Jewish communities recently on the rise, and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the time seemed right for the high school…
(JTA) — A body believed to be that of a rabbi who jumped into the ocean to save a student was found off the coast of North Carolina. Volunteers looking for Reuven Bauman, 35, found the body Sunday, five days after the teacher at Yeshiva Toras Chaim in Norfolk, Virginia jumped into choppy water at…
Even after President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and ignited protests throughout the Middle East, 21-year-old Nourjahen J. didn’t feel afraid, but empowered. The student and human rights activist in Tunisia is blogging and posting her truth on social media. “You cannot say that Israel doesn’t exist,’” Nourjahen tells protesters. “’You cannot say…
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