The controversial hip-hop group released its 13th album, “Man Plans, God Laughs.” Public Enemy, the Grammy-nominated hip-hop group, released its 13th studio album on Thursday. The title of the album, ...

1. Cuban proverb: When the sun rises, it rises for -----. 2. Arab proverb: Examine what is said, not who -----. 3. African proverb: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go -----. 4 ...

"May you grow like an onion with your head in the ground!" Or, as it goes in the original Yiddish: "Zolst vaksn vi a tzibele mitn kop in dr'erd!" That's just one of the colorful curses to be found in ...

Maven, schmooze, schlock, kvetch, nosh: they're just a few of the Yiddish-origin words that have made their way into American dictionaries. Tracing the history of the Jewish lingua franca not only ...

In this installment of This, That or The Other, contestants must determine the origin of some unusual phrases. Is the quotation "death is an experience best shared" a an old Yiddish proverb, an old ...

"Yiddish: A Nation of Words" (Steerforth, 303 pages, $26) by Miriam Weinstein. For all its warmth and joy, and now nostalgia, Yiddish remains a fairly curious language. Its words are culled from a ...

Public Enemy, the Grammy-nominated hip-hop group, released their 13th studio album on Thursday. The title of the album, “Man Plans, God Laughs,” is a translation of a well-known Yiddish proverb. It’s ...