(JTA) — Living in Amsterdam in the years after World War II, Karin Prien’s parents’ bookshelves were lined with the works of Jewish authors like Philip...
(JTA) — During a press conference last Thursday, organized to address rising antisemitism in the wake of the ramming attack on Temple Israel in Detroit earlier...
(JTA) — Two minors have been arrested in connection with a car burning in the Jewish quarter of Antwerp in what is being treated as an...
When the Iowa City Yiddish Group began meeting at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was one of the absolute beginners. Six years later, I...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a new interview that he now regrets his use of the word “apartheid” earlier this month, clarifying a comment that...
אױף דער בינע פֿון „דײַטשן טעאַטער“ אין בערלין טראָגט דער בלאָנדער שױשפּילער מאָריץ קינעמאַן אַ טלית. ס׳איז שװער צו זײַן אַ ייִד אין דײַטשלאַנד, גיט ער...
Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries By Nicholas Lemann Liveright, 416 pages, $35 Nicholas Lemann’s Jewish life was negligible. Great care was taken to...
דעם 26סטן פֿעברואַר 2026 איז אין לונד, שװעדן, פֿאָרגעקומען אַ „ייִדיש־טאָג“. דער לונדער אוניװערסיטעט בשותּפֿות מיטן שוועדישן אינסטיטוט פֿאַר שפּראַכן און פֿאָלקלאָר („איסאָף“) האָבן אָרגאַניזירט אַ...
When the young women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sat down before their Singer sewing machines on Saturday, Mar. 25, 1911, they could not know that...
Roald Dahl’s house is falling down. It’s 1983, and the children’s author’s Buckinghamshire estate is undergoing a gut renovation. Its exposed plumbing and naked beams bespeak...
To the editors: The Forward‘s article about the recent Smol Emuni conference seems to describe a different event than the one that I attended. There were...
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops cautioned its members in a recent memorandum that Catholic “media personalities” are distorting the church’s position on Jews and...
Much of Israeli society is living with a profound cognitive dissonance, one that few articulate openly and many would rather not confront. On one hand, there...
A proposed takeover of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn by New York City’s public hospital system has hit a new obstacle, after the state Attorney General’s...
(JTA) — President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United States had been negotiating an end to the war in Iran for the past two...
(JTA) — OXNARD, California — On Friday nights, in Jewish homes around the world, a familiar ritual unfolds: a blessing over wine, poured into a cup...
דער פֿאָרווערטס האָט שוין אַרויסגעלאָזט דעם עלעפֿטן קאַפּיטל פֿונעם ייִדישן פּאָדקאַסט, Yiddish With Rukhl. דאָס מאָל איז די טעמע „פּסח“. אין דעם קאַפּיטל וועט איר הערן...
Mobile technologies simplify everyday life. They are used for payments, regular conversations, photos, and even gambling. Sites like casino online Westace leverage modern trends and do...
Can We Laugh at That?: Comedy in a Conflicted Age Jacques Berlinerblau University of California Press, 256 pages, $24.95 Even in these polarized, politically turbulent times,...
(JTA) — Len Saxe, a researcher at Brandeis University, has been studying the impact of Birthright trips to Israel since the initiative launched in 1999. Last...
Online casino games can be a brilliant way to bring excitement to life in your spare time. These games have become hugely popular in recent years,...
TULSA, Okla. — The house had prairie views, four bedrooms and a pantry large enough to support a small diaspora. More than 50 people wandered through...
For weeks, I lived in Tel Aviv as missiles streaked across the sky overhead. I heard sirens day and night, disrupting sleep and leaving me constantly...
In TikTok videos viewed tens of thousands of times, 31-year-old Dan Sheena dons a blond wig and acts out skits of a bickering Iraqi couple in...