This Pennsylvania rabbi fuses liberal Judaism with Hasidic Yiddish
Born to a Christian mother, Rabbi Cody Bahir had a remarkable journey to the rabbinate that included studying Chinese Buddhism
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Puppet Monty Pickle is guest on the Forward’s ‘Yiddish Word of the Day’
The Monty Pickle Show is a puppet comedy created by the producers of ‘Sesame Street‘ and ‘Fraggle Rock‘
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What’s a gender-segregated Hasidic pilgrimage like?
An anthropologist and a Hasidic linguist will describe it at the Yiddish New York festival
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When roast goose was a Hanukkah delicacy, and latkes were fried in its schmaltz
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New CD of Yiddish children’s songs by Vilna-born composer David Botwinik
The songs, performed by children and adults, cover the Jewish holidays, family and nature
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Yiddish culture shared mainstream racist stereotypes of the 1920s, new book shows
Even progressive Yiddish journalists and activists who protested anti-Black violence in the South used racist stereotypes
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New record label boasts young (and female) singers of cantorial music
The producers of ‘Khazones Underground’ hope this Ashkenazi musical genre can be revived, just as klezmer was
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VIDEO: Peter, Paul and Mary’s “Light One Candle” — in Yiddish
Three siblings of the musically renowned Mlotek family recently recorded a new translation of the Hanukkah song
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From Buenos Aires to Warsaw, ‘The Bride’ comes home
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Yiddishkayt LA and New Lehrhaus merge — but is it good for Yiddish?
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