Hey! I'm on the virtual pages of the Yiddish Forward . Pretty cool, huh? The English Forward also gave this blog a nice shout out the o...

Have you seen this ? ' Mother Tongue: A passionate, crusading Yiddisher tries to keep the Eastern European language alive in the cosmopo...

Check out this fantastic clip of Shane Baker performing astounding feats of mesmerism most foul. If you like that (and even if you d...

It's art history. It's Marxism. It's feminism. It's cultural criticism. With just a dash of fun, ironic fonts. This is John ...

In late 2002 I got some news from the ed. board of a magazine called ' Heeb '. My angry letter to the editor was ...

Hey, you guys learned about Dibbuk Boxes in Hebrew school, right? You know... haunted Jewish winebox es. (Well, we didn't call it a hau...

As noted in my previous  post ,  the theme of Yiddish!Revival! is a journalistic evergreen, no matter  how long the so-called revival has be...

By now you have probably heard the news. Last week we lost Adrienne Cooper , our friend, teacher, mentor, boss, activist, mother, spiritual ...

Greetings, theoretical readers. Long time no blog, eh? Though I resolved to stay away, a slew of recent news stories about Yiddish has dragg...