Yale to Offer Beginner Yiddish Courses to Fulfill Language Requirements
Yale will launch beginner Yiddish classes in the fall that will allow students to fulfill their language requirements, according to the Yale Daily News.
Elite US Military Language School Drops Hebrew
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, the U.S. military’s elite language school in Monterey, California, is dropping Hebrew from its roster of languages due to low demand.
Meet the Longtime Jewish Labor Activist Going Up Against Amazon in Alabama
A historic union battle in Bessemer, Alabama, could result in the country’s first organized Amazon warehouse – and it’s thrust a longtime Jewish union leader back into the spotlight.
Rabbi Robert Marx, Social Justice Pioneer Who Marched with Martin Luther King, Dies at...
Robert Marx, a pioneering social justice advocate and leading Reform rabbi who drew inspiration from his experiences marching with Martin Luther King, Jr., is dead at 93.
Brooklyn Chasidic Rabbi Under Investigation for Promoting Child Marriage
A Brooklyn rabbi is under investigation for allegedly arranging marriages between children as young as 15 years old.
Nu? Want to Learn Yiddish? There’s an App
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Colorful Yiddish words and phrases have been in America’s collective cultural bloodstream throughout generations — and...
Historian: Immigration Policy Excluded Survivors
David Nasaw spent most of his life believing the United States government welcomed Jewish refugees from Europe with open arms once the Allies won...
US Watchdog: Aid Agency Didn’t Properly Vet Palestinian Recipients for Terror Ties
WASHINGTON — A U.S. government watchdog, the General Accounting Office, found that the U.S. Agency for International Development has failed in the past to properly vet beneficiaries for terrorist ties.
Baseball is Back: Eight Jewish Players in the Majors
Alex Bregman is hoping to return to his near MVP form, Max Fried will be doing something no Jewish lefthanded pitcher has done in nearly five decades and the 2021 MLB season gets underway Thursday.
ADL: One in Four American Jews Has Experienced anti-Semitism Since 2016
An annual survey from the Anti-Defamation League found that a quarter of American Jews have personally experienced anti-Semitism in the past five years