Yale’s new Yiddish program helps students fulfill the University’s language requirement while connecting with Jewish culture and Eastern European history. Previously, Yale offered only one course for ...

Have you ever been back to your alma mater? Felt a rush of nostalgia and a bit of dejá vû? This was my experience last week at the siem, the graduation ceremony, of the students who took the YIVO ...

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(New York, N.Y.)— Is your dog meshugena or a mensch? Find this out on May 20 when the Workmen’s Circle presents Yiddish for Dogs, where you’ll learn how to communicate with your canines in Yiddish.

Diana Scott, the chair of the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring of Northern California, has partnered with SFSU’s Jewish Studies Department to bring a new course offering to students and the community, ...

Nikolai Borodulin once had only a faint connection to his Yiddish heritage — ironic for someone born in the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region. But now, 55 years later, Borodulin is ...

Not so long ago, Hanukkah celebrations in America were frequently about politics, Jewish strength and triumph, and Zionism. Growing up in Detroit in the 1960s, associate professor of Yiddish Ellen ...

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — The scenes were jarring, as intended, and meant to provoke fear: neo-Nazis parading in front of Disney World and crowding a highway bridge in Orlando, shouting antisemitic slurs, ...