Sign up for the Yiddish Brief, a bissel of all things Yiddish, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter. It’s 1945, three years before the ...

A century after the birth of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel — one of the most influential Jewish scholars, theologians, and civil rights activists of the 20th century — religious leaders, academics, and ...

Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, ‘you don’t have the full story.’ What do a leather medicine ball, a steamer ...

For the first time in the history of modern navigation, libraries in Yiddish and in Hebrew will be installed on the French steamer Normandie, the world’s largest and most luxurious liner, it was ...

Gil Hovav — the great-grandson of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the founder of modern Hebrew — will speak at an event today about his family’s legacy and impact on history, language, and Judaism. Hovav, an ...

The Erev Rav, meaning “mixed multitude” in Hebrew, refers to the group of non-Israelites who joined the Israelites during the Exodus from Egypt. Jewish tradition recognizes their profound influence on ...