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Why is Deborah named?

Remembering family names is hard when you have so many - opinion

RABBI ARYEH SPERO of the National Conference of Jewish Affairs debates Medea Benjamin of Code Pink in Washington, in 2019.

The timeless debate

By NEVILLE TELLER

Shtetl in Poland 370

A Yiddish treasure with a soap opera backstory

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA

A general view of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris

Germany celebrates UNESCO World Heritage listing for Yiddish and Ashkenazi culture birthplace

By DAVID I. KLEIN/JTA

Set in a Hasidic enclave in Brooklyn, "The Offering" is the newest film in the long history of Jewish horror films.

Jewish spirit haunts Hasidic Brooklyn in ‘The Offering,’ Yiddish-inflected horror movie

By STEPHEN SILVER/JTA

‘FIDDLER ON THE ROOF’ at the 70th annual Tony Awards in 2016. After the runaway success of NYTF’s unorthodox revival of ‘Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish,’ this anomaly may have inspired a whirlwind of interest in Yiddish classes, theater and culture that is having its moment during, of all things, a

On stage and in the classroom, Mikhl Yashinsky is stoking the flame of the Yiddish revival

By Jon Kalish/JTA