Chavi Moskowitz

Chavi Moskowitz is an intern at The Jerusalem Post and focuses on arts and culture. She holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from The American University of Rome and an MA in Global Communications from The American University of Paris.

After living in Rome, Buenos Aires, Paris and New York, Chavi, originally from Los Angeles, now finds herself right at home in Tel Aviv.

En yiddish, bien sûr !

Pour beaucoup, le yiddish est la langue d’une génération qui s’identifiait, non pas par le lieu où elle vivait, mais par sa culture. Bien plus que l’hébreu, c’était la langue des Juifs d’Europe.

JUNE 10, 2014

YOUNG ULTRA-Orthodox Jewish children play in the alleys of Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim.

In Yiddish, of course

To many it is the language of an older generation that didn’t identify with a particular place but a culture – it has been the language of European Jews much more than Hebrew.

APRIL 24, 2014

A bisl Yiddish: Talking the talk

If we do not speak, we will forget, and that mustn't ever come to pass.

AUGUST 18, 2013

A bisl Yiddish: Jewish presence in Poland

As Jews look more and more to modern Israel to inform their sense of Jewishness, young Poles learn about Yiddishkayt to inform their sense of Polishness.

JULY 21, 2013