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POLICE LEAD away a protester who tried to block Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway during a demonstration in September.

Grapevine, October 13, 2024 : Of conferences and ceremonies

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

Vilnius, Lithuania

Fania Brantsovsky, last living Vilna ghetto partisan resistance fighter, dies at 102

By DAVID I. KLEIN/JTA

Jewish "The Circle" contestant Debbie Schwartzberg Levy.

Meet the Jewish mom whose first sentence on Netflix was in Yiddish

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Tamar Fishman poses with the artwork that became a U.S. Postal Service stamp issued on Hanukkah 2018.

Jewish Life Stories: A pioneering Jewish papercut artist, a circus clown on a humanitarian mission

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

A man studies in a university library.

Grapevine August 18, 2024: Preserving and promoting Yiddish

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

OLGA AVIGAIL MIELESZCZUK.

A not so dead language: Olga Miekeszczuk performs Yiddish concert in Jerusalem

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

OLGA AVIGAIL Mieleszczuk spreads the Yiddish musical word far and wide.

Worlds of Jewish music and thought

Frieda Johles Forman, feminist translator, editor and writer, sits for an oral history interview with the Yiddish Book Center, May 11, 2016, in Toronto.

Frieda Johles Forman, ‘fiery’ feminist who rediscovered Yiddish women authors, dies at 87

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

‘STEMPENYU’ DEPICTS scenes from a Torah-oriented life.

Pulling Jewish strings: 'Stempenyu' debuts at Tel Aviv's Beit Lessin Theatre

By HAGAY HACOHEN

GUY KLAIMAN with Amnon Ben-David, CEO of Eshet Tours.

Grapevine, February 28, 2024: Heroes then and now

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

Women protest calling for the government to find a solution to have the hostages released, outside Hakirya Base (Military Defense Headquarters) in Tel Aviv, February 1, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90

Can literature soothe the trauma of war?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

JAPANESE AND Israelis join forces in the Japanese ‘Kakizome’ ceremony, in a Japanese gesture of solidarity with the hostages held in Gaza.

Grapevine, January 24, 2024: An error of omission

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

A scene from "The Zone of Interest"

The real Auschwitz commandant — and Yiddish resistance song — behind ‘The Zone of Interest’

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA

Ruth Seymour, raised in the Bronx, turned KCRW in Los Angeles into a public radio powerhouse and produced a series of programs on Yiddish short stories.

Ruth Seymour, public radio pioneer devoted to Jewish culture, dies at 88

By Jon Kalish/JTA

HUNGARIAN JEWS on the ‘selection’ ramp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau in occupied Poland, spring 1944. This photo is from the ‘Auschwitz Album,’ the only surviving visual evidence of the mass murder process at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

'Unearthed': Holocaust history on the trail of a Yiddish theater actress - review

By MIRIAM KATES LOCK

A copy of Say It In Yiddish.

Yiddish book center unveils new core exhibit

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA

A Jewish siddur written in Hebrew.

Israeli Hebrew didn’t kill Yiddish, as new NYC exhibit shows it gave a new nest to live - opinion

By GHIL'AD ZUCKERMANN/JTA

THE NEW YORK Times building in Manhattan.

NYT op-ed: Hebrew symbolizes 'far-right Israeli militarism'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF