Even atheists can enjoy these secular Yiddish poems and their English translations, related to the Torah reading.

Sign up for the Yiddish Brief, a bissel of all things Yiddish, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter. So, do you spell it schlep or shlep? And ...

One reason my wife and I never learned Yiddish was that our families didn’t want us to. Yiddish was only spoken when they ...

Premiering this week, 'The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language' tells the true story of Holocaust survivors and émigré scholars in NYC racing to salvage a civilization ...

Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik has gone viral after sharing the real meaning behind well-known Yiddish words. Bialik, 47, who comes from a family of Jewish immigrants has been speaking Yiddish since she ...

We all know who matters in life. Family. Friends. These are the people we write about, worry about, complain about. And we have so many words for them! Bestie. Sis. Bro. Partner-in-crime. We’ve got a ...

COPAKE, New York (Reuters) - Hebrew is the language of the state of Israel and the Bible, but a growing number of Jews around the world are reclaiming Yiddish as the language of their culture, ...

However, "Vance" and "vants" are not necessarily pronounced the same. After former U.S. President Donald Trump announced Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his running mate in the 2024 presidential election, ...

At the end of the 19th century, a young woman chose, against her mother’s wishes, to become an actress. She ended up becoming the most popular Yiddish actress of all time. Today, even those people who ...

A culture with no country is well-suited for people being rejected by theirs, writes the social justice organizer at the Workers Circle. (JTA) — Queer elders can be hard to find. There’s no app I ...