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Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David: Preserving the history of German Jewry - interview

Jerusalemite of the Week: A conversation with Leo Baeck Institute director Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David on preserving German Jewish history.

JANUARY 10, 2026|ByAARON REICH

A three-year-old haredi child found on his own at a bus terminal at the Kalandiya West Bank crossing, December 15, 2025

Ultra-Orthodox child forgotten on bus and left alone at West Bank checkpoint, police probe parents

The child's parents, a haredi couple residing in Modi'in Ilit, were located on Monday morning and subsequently taken into questioning by police officers.

DECEMBER 15, 2025|ByEFRAT FORSHER, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Leah, and the inner truth we need in an age of illusion - opinion

Leah’s legacy reminds us that renewal after October 7 will emerge from depth, resilience, and the quiet work of rebuilding from within.

DECEMBER 8, 2025|ByZEHAVIT GROSS

Saul Rubinek plays a version of himself in "Playing Shylock," about an actor whose dream to play Shakespeare's controversial Jewish character is thwarted by timid producers.

Saul Rubinek’s new one-man show asks, is there ever a right time to play Shylock?

“Playing Shylock,” opening in Brooklyn, imagines the cancellation of Shakespeare’s controversial play about the humiliation of a Jewish moneylender.

OCTOBER 22, 2025|ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

Germany celebrates UNESCO World Heritage listing for Yiddish and Ashkenazi culture birthplace

The sites in the upper part of the Rhine River valley are known as the origin point of Ashkenazi culture and where the Yiddish language first began to develop over 1,000 years ago.

FEBRUARY 4, 2023ByDAVID I. KLEIN/JTA

A general view of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris

Jewish spirit haunts Hasidic Brooklyn in ‘The Offering,’ Yiddish-inflected horror movie

There's has been a boom in the Jewish-themed horror realm in recent years.

JANUARY 14, 2023BySTEPHEN SILVER/JTA

Set in a Hasidic enclave in Brooklyn, "The Offering" is the newest film in the long history of Jewish horror films.

On stage and in the classroom, Mikhl Yashinsky is stoking the flame of the Yiddish revival

Yiddish revival hits New York with Folksbiene.

JANUARY 5, 2023ByJON KALISH/JTA

‘FIDDLER ON THE ROOF’ at the 70th annual Tony Awards in 2016. After the runaway success of NYTF’s unorthodox revival of ‘Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish,’ this anomaly may have inspired a whirlwind of interest in Yiddish classes, theater and culture that is having its moment during, of all things, a

Isaac Bashevis Singer's 'Gimpel the Fool': The Jewish Don Quixote

The story of Gimpel, published after WWII, constitutes the repudiation of Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein’s understandable response to the Holocaust.

DECEMBER 31, 2022ByPAUL SOCKEN

Isaac Bashevis Singer in 1969. He died in 1991 at the age of 87. (Dan Hadani collection, National Library of Israel)

Grapevine December 16, 2022: Meaningful philanthropy

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

DECEMBER 17, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

TEL AVIV University president Ariel Porat (left) with Sir Frank Lowy.

‘Far beispiel’: Yiddish as a first language

My father had told me to go on, to live life, and he did it in Yiddish, a Yiddish born in the lost towns of Eastern Europe and whose speakers learned to confront adversity with humor and insight.

DECEMBER 2, 2022ByELAINE ROSENBERG MILLER

The writer and her sister with their parents.

What is the status of Jewish languages in Canada?

It seems still worthwhile to use Canada census data to find out how these languages are doing in regard to being used and studied vs. just being abandoned and therefore shrinking from view.

DECEMBER 2, 2022ByLEO DAVIDS