What happened the first time I wore a yarmulke on the subway
I’m not religious, but since Oct. 7, I feel that the best way to combat Jew hatred is to act ‘more Jewish'
Yiddish World
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Video: A Purim tale, ‘Drunk all year, but sober on Purim,’ in Yiddish with English subtitles
Master storyteller Shane Baker recites the classic writer I. L. Peretz's story of a would-be saintly man diverted by a turkey
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Video: Top Jewish chefs praise roast goose as an authentic Ashkenazi delicacy
During the discussion, restaurateur Jeremy Umansky invited the other panelists to Cleveland to meet a local goose farmers
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Prolific Yiddish conference organizer Philip ‘Fishl’ Kutner has died at 97
The retired science teacher launched Der Bay, a newsletter promoting Yiddish events and groups
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The Holocaust survivor in the typewriter repair shop
It wasn’t the sad smile or the stained apron that made me remember him so well. It was the tattoo on his forearm.
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VIDEO: Now you can make delicious gluten-free matzo balls for your chicken soup!
Our authentic Jewish chicken soup is so rich in flavor, you hardly need to salt it
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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.
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How my family built a bank for the Lower East Side — and then destroyed it
Growing up, I had no clue about my family's role in the 1917 collapse of the Jarmulowsky Bank
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Restored 1939 Yiddish melodrama ‘Mothers of Today’ is silly, but fun
A mother drinks, smokes, gambles, and mocks the old-fashioned mother next door
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Magnificent new Judaica gallery at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts
Among the objects: a Torah shield created in 1781-82, with images of intertwined plants and animals — some real, some fantastical.
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VIDEO: A sign of Jewish unity as Ashkenazi Jews celebrate the Sephardi language, Ladino
Since many Yiddishists are intrigued with Ladino, Moishele Alfonso reported about the NYC event in Yiddish (with English subtitles)
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