As some of you may know, I just got back from a few days in Montreal. I was there for the Montreal Jewish Music Festival and to see all the ...

Confession time: I listen to a classic rock station. I'm not proud, but it's a habit from junior high and I can't seem to kick i...

YIVO has stepped up their blog game of late. The new YEDIES ( news ) blog has a great mix of YIVO news with archival curiosities.  YEDIES...

Exciting news for fans of Yiddish vaudeville, Shane Baker and rubber chickens. Baker and fellow vaudevillian Tanya Solomon have a new show ...

Seen this morning on the subway: a car full of ads for the new Goldbergs show. To be fair, it's not another piece of so-called 'rea...

My friend Michael Wex has read pretty much every book worth reading, and plenty, I'm sure, that weren't. About 14 years ago he reco...

With sadness I learned of the passing of Rosa Portnoi Rozenbaumas z'l', on August 5th . Rosa was the mother of my friend Isabelle Ro...

Just when you thought no editor could possibly be interested in the re-revivication of Yiddish, well, you thought too soon.  Once widely...

The Postwar Revival of the Synagogue: Does it Reflect a Religious Awakening? -- Will Herberg, Commentary , April 1950 ( no link, article be...