Rumors of the demise of the Congress for Jewish Culture have been greatly exaggerated. The Congress has announced a full slate of events re...

Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center presents: 3rd Annual Sholem Aleichem Yiddish Klezfest Sunday, December 21, 2014, 1-5pm  Featurin...

My friend Dmitri Zisl Slepovitch just released the new Litvakus CD and - SPOILER ALERT - it's brilliant. Read my review here . And liste...

Unless you've been living under an unkosher rock, you probably know that we just said goodbye and git vokh to the marathon of holidays t...

Last Sukkes I was in another state, cleaning out the remnants of my mother's life and thinking about what a sukke and a cement storage u...

Just found a notebook full of these weirdo notes from 1999-2000-ish. Don't act like you don't have your own weirdo notes from the pa...

Please click over to Jewcy and read my interview with the translator of the Yiddish Waiting for Godot .

New Yiddish Rep's triumphant production of the Yiddish language Waiting for Godot is now in previews at the Barrow Street Theater. I s...

I stumbled on this a while ago, but just decided to blog about it. PRI partners with Israel Story to bring us a slice of life from Israel...

Nearly lost Yiddish language increasingly popular among Jewish college students This article from the JNS says that college students are ...