Everyone has something to say about the Jewish mother, but the Jewish dad is a harder character to pinpoint. In film and television, he often plays the meek foil to his overbearing wife. But for those ...

(JTA) — Philip Roth’s character Alexander Portnoy captured the insecurity of second-generation immigrants in two priceless sentences. “I was asked by the teacher one day to identify a picture of what ...

A California seventh-grader aced “Yiddishkeit” and later the Hebrew word “keriah” on the way to being named one of eight co-champions. OK, not quite, but last week, when the first rounds of the finals ...

Can you describe your life in six words? Larry David, creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm did: “I should have had the chicken.” Try it yourself Feb. 4 at a live show at the Elbo Room in San Francisco of ...

English and European words such as alphabet, earth, loco and habitat could come from Hebrew, according to an independent Israeli linguistics researcher who has written a number of unpublished ...

A groundbreaking Yiddish puppet theater began in New York in 1925. Photo credit: YIVO. March 2021 marks the second consecutive year in which Passover seder tables will be notably underpopulated as a ...

Philip Roth’s character Alexander Portnoy captured the insecurity of second-generation immigrants in two priceless sentences. “I was asked by the teacher one day to identify a picture of what I knew ...