Yiddish

Israel urges rabbis to help stop Iranian spy recruitment after dozens of indictments - report

Iranian agents use a simple recruitment method, relying on "fishing expeditions and luck," gradually escalating their demands in exchange for "easy" money.

JULY 18, 2026|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Rabbi Yigal Cohen light candles for the 45 victims who were killed in a stampede, at the scene of the fatal disaster, at Mt Meron, last week. May 06, 2021.

Psoy Korolenko sings during a recording session for Yiddish Glory.

Lost Holocaust music, nearly erased by Stalin, goes on tour in Asia

The story emerged from 263 songs recorded in 1944 by Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky from Ukrainian Jews newly freed from Romanian occupation in 1944.

JULY 17, 2026|BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA

Dov Bleich writing a Yiddish prayer for America’s next 250 years at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.

America did not begin in a single language - opinion

Could Jonas Phillips have imagined what this experiment called America would look like 250 years on?

JULY 7, 2026|ByDOV BLEICH

Hampshire College, incubator of Yiddish Book Center, pioneer in Holocaust studies, to close

The closure, which follows semester after years of financial troubles, won’t affect the Yiddish Book Center, which operates on land purchased from the college in Amherst, Massachusetts.

APRIL 15, 2026|ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA

Grapevine, May 23, 2025: They also see

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MAY 23, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

AT THE ceremony celebrating the new Dahan Gate (L-R): Bar-Ilan U. President Prof. Arie Zaban, Dr. Zipora Schorr, Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg, Shlomo Zohar, Bar-Ilan CEO and Senior Deputy President Zohar Yinon, and Rector Prof. Amnon Albeck.

These New York Jewish arts organizations have been defunded by the Trump administration

Winitsky said he saw the cuts as a direct attack on groups that might undercut the administration.

MAY 6, 2025ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA

'The Reservoir,' written by Jake Brasch and directed by Shelley Butler, which had its world premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, won the Jewish Plays Project's annual contest.

'Sons and Daughters': The last great Yiddish novel now available in English - review

An English translation by Rose Waldman of Chaim Grade’s final, unfinished work has been published.

APRIL 27, 2025ByGLENN C. ALTSCHULER

JEWISH WEDDING in a Russian shtetl, complete with klezmer band; painting by Isaak Asknaziy, 1893.

Battling cancer, famed Jewish conductor Michael Tilson Thomas prepares for his last concert

Facing a return of his brain cancer, Tilson Thomas says goodbye with one final concert in San Francisco.

APRIL 18, 2025ByPENNY SCHWARTZ/ JTA

Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, in Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the Ode to Joy, on August 28, 2022. It was Tilson Thomas's last concert with the BSO, where he began his career in 1969, as its assistant conductor and pianist.

Brad Lander just cursed Andrew Cuomo in Yiddish

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander clapped back at Andrew Cuomo with a Yiddish curse after being accused of anti-Israel actions during a synagogue speech.

APRIL 3, 2025ByGRACE GILSON/JTA

Rescued from the archives and wrestled into print: Behind Chaim Grade's last Yiddish novel

Finished or not, “Sons and Daughters” is a vivid, Tolstoyan examination of what Kirsch calls “a family struggling with the meaning of Jewishness in the twentieth century.”

MARCH 28, 2025ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA