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.
Lost Holocaust music, nearly erased by Stalin, goes on tour in Asia
America did not begin in a single language - opinion
Hampshire College, incubator of Yiddish Book Center, pioneer in Holocaust studies, to close
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.
Grapevine December 16, 2022: Meaningful philanthropy
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
‘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.
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.
Grapevine: The energetic Quint
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish returning for limited off-Broadway run
The limited production will run from November 13, 2022, to January 1, 2023.
Grapevine October 9, 2022: A different Balfour Day celebration
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
Grapevine October 9, 2022: A different Balfour Day celebration
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
Saving literature from amnesia: Revisiting Isaac Bashevis Singer - review
Even though not clearly observant, Yiddishkeit is manifest in Singer’s writings. The presence of God can be seen in his writings.
Boys in hasidic schools regularly beaten, denied basic secular education - NYT
A year-long investigation into the New York hasidic school system by The New York Times found that the children in these schools were suffering from severe educational deprivation.
