Throwback Thursday. Would you rather see something I wrote 9 years ago or would you like to see a picture of me playing cello on our seni...

From earlier this week: Indeed, not inculcation of Jewish patterns of life, nor transmission of Jewish culture and history, but measureme...

Join celebrated host, actor and singer Shane Baker, and special guests for a fun, intimate night of Yiddish performance. Bring your ins...

(paper given at last weekend's Rethinking Jewish Identity and Jewish Education conference at Brandeis) The Roots and Structure of th...

UPDATE UPDATE (second update) According to a tweet from the Director of Digital Strategy at WNET/Channel 13, the Yiddish "quiz" i...

Purim sameakh/ a freylikhn purim, y'all. What are you doing reading this? Shouldn't you be pounding shots in a dark room in a terrib...

Dear PBS, When your website content is almost indistinguishable from that of Heeb, it's probably time to stop farming out your website...

From my friend Daniel Kahn , a dark and funny new video for Love Lays Low , off his newest CD with the Painted Bird, Bad Old Songs . . ...

The Washington Post brings us an interesting chart from the Pew Research Center. The chart tracks language presence in the United States fr...

Yiddish Murder Ballads Another terrific post from Itzik Gottesman's Yiddish Song of the Week . This one features a recording of Leah (...