While Yentl is largely known as the 1983 Barbra Streisand musical, it actually began as a short Yiddish story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Co-writers Gary Abrahams, Elise Esther Hearst and Galit Klas ...

Four of them, ranging in age from teenagers to young adults, will perform on Sunday, March 22, in Boca Raton, promising to bring the joy of Yiddish music to old-time aficionados as well as those who ...

The event — which combines a film screening with live comedy, music and nosh— offers audiences a chance to experience the pair’s distinctive blend of storytelling, cultural exploration and Jewish ...

Meng Yang, an assistant professor at Peking University in Beijing who is speaking in the Bay Area this week, has carved out a unique space in China’s academic landscape. She teaches the country’s ...

One of the most popular courses at New Lehrhaus, the Berkeley-based Jewish learning institute, uses a novel approach to understanding the Talmud: “Seinfeld.” “Whatever excites somebody’s curiosity is ...

“I want to change the way I wear my shoes,” Brooklyn-based Yiddishist and musician Ira Khonen Temple sings on the first track on their debut album, “Strange Tongue/Mistame Loshn.” “But I don’t wanna ...

Call me a softie, but I love a traditional Christmas Eve. If you don’t find me eating Chinese food and watching a movie, I might be catching Gotham Comedy Club’s “A Very Jewish Christmas!” show or ...

Regan Lipes does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Yiddish is a familiar presence in contemporary English speech. Many people use or at least know the meaning of words like chutzpah (audacity), schlep (drag) or nosh (snack). These words have been ...

On my mother’s side, they all spoke fluent Yiddish. Most of these conversations took place while eating moisture-free yellow pound cake and washing it down with warmed-up day-old Maxwell House Coffee.

The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary in the aftermath of World War II. By Rob Tannenbaum Arguments, on topics ...

People are responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs for Gaza was released in Yiddish, a language nearly eradicated through genocide.