My eight year old son, right before going to sleep, says he wants to go on a trip to Lima, Peru -- the place I was born in and grew up before coming to Los Angeles -- so he can see me as a little kid. What can I say?
Bradley Burston | Posted 02.29.2012
Day by day at home, this Israel teaches the horse to starve when it demands more and more of the non-Haredi young and provides less and less.
AP | DORIE TURNER | Posted 02.20.2012
ATLANTA — A group of American college students stands in a semicircle, clapping and hopping on one foot as they sing in Yiddish: "Az der rebe ta...
Michael Giltz | Posted 02.15.2012
SCHLEMIEL THE FIRST ** 1/2 out of **** NYU'S JACK H. SKIRBALL CENTER Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer helped popularize folk tales about the foolish men ...
Tom Teicholz | Posted 02.08.2012
On Dec. 19, as part of their 25th anniversary tour, the Klezmatics will perform at Walt Disney Concert Hall for a Chanukah concert featuring both their well-known and new repertoire.
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 01.02.2012
Pearl Gould's Uncle Elie and Aunt Esther started the Broadway Silk Store during the Great Depression, and it looks much as it did when Hoover was president. Like Pearl, it's stitched together by time.
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 12.18.2011
If you were to Google your way around the Internet, you'd probably be left with the impression that Josh is half-Jewish (from Russia and Poland) and half-Norwegian, and you wouldn't be too far off. He's actually 5/8 Jewish and 1/8 Norwegian.
George Heymont | Posted 10.26.2011
Back before World War II (when Yiddish was a thriving language) it was standard practice for the great works of literature and song to be translated into Yiddish.
Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D. | Posted 10.01.2011
The vulnerable Yiddish language could have languished and died. Instead, it has become a venerable part of our society.
Rabbi Jason Miller | Posted 09.17.2011
While I am certainly no Yiddish maven, I know enough words and phrases to know that when someone mispronounces a Yiddish word it hurts my ears.
Marc Gopin | Posted 09.10.2011
There is something about blessings and curses that are both a very weighty matter, taken with the utmost seriousness by the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud.
Marshall Fine | Posted 09.07.2011
One of the few authors who wrote primarily in Yiddish, Sholem Aleichem became the most famous literary figure of that language. His fame as a writer grew only after his death, spurred in part by the popularity of Fiddler on the Roof, based on Aleichem's writing.
dailywritingtips.com | Posted 07.15.2011
The Yiddish language is a wonderful source of rich expressions, especially terms of endearment (and of course, complaints and insults). ...
Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
By eliminating the "erotic services" category, Craigslist may be cutting off $44 million of potential advertising revenue this year.
Menachem Wecker | Posted 05.25.2011
"I'm constantly constructively uncomfortable with both parts of the term 'Jewish art,'" says Dan Friedman, arts and culture editor of the New York-based Forward.
Boing Boing | Cory Doctorow | Posted 05.25.2011
Yiddish House press has translated several classic kids' books into Yiddish, a curious and wonderfully expressive language spoken mostly by Jews of Ea...
Joshua Stanton | Posted 05.25.2011
Even as Jewish organizations have created websites, online forums, and online publications in response to the growing demand for online resources, Jewish education has remained largely offline.
Mike Elk | Posted 11.17.2011
My grandfather probably couldn't imagine all the social change he would see in his lifetime. He could hope that the solidarity of those united for justice would eventually lead to victory.
Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011
In Scotland, April 1 is known as Huntigowok. In Fife, a peninsula north of Edinburgh, the foolishness continues on April, 2, Taily Day, when the fun is limited to the immediate area of the backside.
The New York Times | JOSEPH BERGER | Posted 05.25.2011
"This is our thrilling moment in Yiddish literature, this is our Dead Sea Scrolls," said Aaron Lansky, president of the book center, which collects te...
Norman Lear | Posted 05.25.2011
Ever since I smoked my first good cigar, I have felt that if there were no other reason to believe in God, Havana leaf would suffice. I've had similar epiphanies while biting into a ripe peach.
Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011
Major League Baseball may have its Cal Ripken; but fans of Fiddler on the Roof know of only one Theodore Bikel, the ironman actor.
Michael Wex | Posted 05.25.2011
I don't complain because I'm unhappy. Writers in general don't seem to complain any more than musicians or painters or any other group of free-lance workers, they just tend to do it better.
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011
From Tchaikovsky to Broadway, Butterfly to Frankie Valli and Shalom, Toronto is truly alive with The Sound of Music!
Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011
I attended Camp Havanagila, a Zionist summer camp in the Catskill Mountains, when I was young, and so, it seems, did Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
David Kersh | Posted 03.31.2012