One reason my wife and I never learned Yiddish was that our families didn’t want us to. Yiddish was only spoken when they ...

Explore the fascinating story behind The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language, a new chamber opera celebrating YIVO’s ...

Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson's mural for Holocaust remembrance in Philadelphia is about language, displacement and memory.

It’s Sunday just after noon, and the students and staff of Sholem, a secular community and school, have gathered together to ...

Something stronger than Coors Lite is needed. The US president described Kirk as a “martyr for American conservatism”, ...

The Met Opera's adaptation of Michael Chabon's 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay' asks big questions about the ...

This new translation of Bialik reveals how poetry confronts violence, faith, and politics — while speaking to India’s own struggles with translation and cultural memory ...

The mural, named "Lay-lah Lay-lah," is a text-based collage by artist Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson that represents the global ...

Decimated by pogroms, the Holocaust and years of Soviet rule, the small but tenacious community is coping with antisemitism, ...

The following is the transcript of a lecture delivered by Prof. Khachig Tölölyan on May 21, 2025 for the Hamazkayin New York ...

Teshuva is usually translated as repentance, but in essence, it means “return.” What does punishment really mean? The simple ...

Curricula addressing the Holocaust or European Jewry often include 'Auschwitz and Poland.' Less mention is made of post-war ...