There's a new video from international Hasidic pop star, brocade bekeshe and funky glasses wearer, Lipa Schmeltzer. It's called Mizr...

New Yiddish Rep and the Rivoli Theatre present: Yosl Rakover Speaks To G-d Thursday, August 23rd  10 PM Motzei Shabbos, August ...

On August 12th we observed the 60th anniversary of what has come to be known as the Night of the Murdered Poets. August 12th, 1952, 13 Sovi...

Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird at Lincoln Center, Sunday at 1 Did you know the Yiddish Pogues were in New York City? I didn't, eit...

There are two ways to make a Jewish supernatural horror film. One,   Jewish vampires and werewolves ( American Werewolf in London , Fearless...

The New York Yiddish scene has been kind of quiet lately. That's summer in the city for you; all the cool kids are in Berlin, Krakow or ...

This winter the Jewish Museum mounted a terrific exhibit about the Photo League called Radical Camera. The Photo League (1936-1951) was a...

Like a lot of Yiddish culture in America, the origin of much Yiddish music is now generally so unfamiliar as to be easily dismissed as '...

Presented without comment, our favorite voice of reason and moderation in all things klal yisroel related: “Everyone must act in accord...

Hey! There seems to be a big pile of Yiddish related news items to get outraged about. Not that I'm outraged about Yiddish, but at the i...