Do crossword puzzles in ink to calm my mind after new headlines. Celebrate small wins, that… feel more fatuous, steadily. I ...

Even atheists can enjoy these secular Yiddish poems and their English translations, related to the Torah reading.

Hanan Ayalti’s Yiddish novel "Boom and Chains," now in English, portrays the external and internal struggles of the Jewish ...

On my mother’s side, they all spoke fluent Yiddish. Most of these conversations took place while eating moisture-free yellow pound cake and washing it down with warmed-up day-old Maxwell House Coffee.

In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...

Of course, many Jews in academia know that merely being Jewish cannot protect oneself from charges of enabling antisemitism.

Heritage words add a new wrinkle to an old tradition, writes a linguistics scholar.

We hold both joy for those who came home and hope and pain for those who haven’t,” Zohar said. “We are one people, one heart.

Nowadays Roth makes a point of involving himself in Jewish campus life — all forms of it. He spent Rosh Hashanah with the ...

Mordechi Rosenfeld, known as Modi, already has the synagogue crowd. Now he wants the “Goyim, gays and theys,” too.

On Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, a man got into his car, checked his mirrors, and decided this would be a ...

The conflict over compulsory service for the nation’s ultra-Orthodox has become a stand-in for a larger struggle over the ...