In Yiddish and English, a single word—play, or shpil—refers both to recreational enjoyment and to theatrical performance.

Jewish sitcom supremo Robert Popper’s most recent work is about a 104-year-old widow who cannot stop writing letters ...

The New York State Education Department wrote in English and Yiddish to two Chassidic schools in the Williamsburg ...

There’s no crisis here that needs solving except for the dislike people have of the Chassidic community, and that to me is the issue,” said Moshe Krakowski, of Yeshiva University.

A new podcast recalls the history, culture and influence of the Yiddish East End. Nosh, schmooze, chutzpah... words that many of us still use today. They come from Yiddish, a Jewish language ...

When millions of Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews perished in the Holocaust, their stories, culture and way of life were wiped out with them. One survivor, the novelist Chaim Grade, made it his ...

In an exclusive interview with TUKO.co.ke, seasoned marriage and family therapist Grace Kariuki explained that love letters date years back and need to be embraced in the current age. She said: Love ...

Its appearance shook the Yiddish literary world. By Joseph Berger Altie Karper had been waiting for the call for years. An editor at a Knopf imprint, she had long wanted to publish an English ...

Seed of Doubt, a short, Yiddish-language horror movie making film festival rounds, raises two thought-provoking questions: What makes a horror movie horrifying, and how does that change when the ...

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast uncovers the vibrant yet little-known Jewish popular culture of London’s East End. Spanning seven episodes—six in English and one in Yiddish—the series brings to life newly ...

They spoke Yiddish, a hybrid language based on old German, incorporating words from biblical Hebrew and local languages. When we were growing up, hearing stories of the old East End from our relatives ...

Tu B’Shvat is an all year long celebration when you’re working farmland, as Hasidic Jew Yisroel Bass does at the Yiddish Farm in Upstate New York. The farm was founded in order to “expand the role of ...