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More Than a Breakfast: How Lox Became a Beloved Jewish Tradition

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By: Joelle Abramowitz

January 30, 2026

While lox is not a particularly religiously significant Jewish food, I would argue that it has attained a religious-like status among many Jews. Fish has long been a staple in…

Entre 1880 y 1930, miles de judíos llegaron a Argentina escapando de los pogroms europeos. En los barrios de Buenos Aires, el yiddish se fundió con el bandoneón

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By: JewishWebsite

January 28, 2026

Teens, seniors explore Ashkenazi traditions at Yiddish New York festival

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By: Miri Villerius

January 12, 2026

A group of klezmer musicians was jamming in Lower Manhattan, when its fiddler suddenly stopped and encouraged a preteen clarinetist to lead a tune. After a moment, the young musician…

One Yiddish Theater – Night Stories: 4 Tales of Reanimation

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By: Congress For Jewish Culture

January 12, 2026

In a last-ditch effort to get you to see our show, Avrom Sutzkever’s NIGHT STORIES: 4 Tales of Reanimation (brought to you by the same team that brought you last year’s…

Yiddish with Rukhl — A Forverts Podcast

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By: Rukhl Schaechter

January 12, 2026

Beginning in the 1920s and ‘30s, Yiddish radio connected Jews worldwide. In New York City, the Jewish Daily Forverts’ station WEVD — known as “the station that speaks your language”…

Virginia-based Yiddishists lead first Yiddish festival in Richmond

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By: David Zakalik

January 12, 2026

Virginia’s capital city is having a few big inaugurals this January. Not only will Richmond see the state’s first female governor installed; it will also be seeing the state’s first-ever…

“יידישער אָפּטימיזם!” פֿון דער ליגע פֿאַר ייִדיש

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By: Gittel Schaechter-Vishwanath

January 6, 2026

דעצעמבער 2025/כּיסלו תּשפּ״ו לי‫בע גוטע־פֿרײַנד, אי‫ך ווער תּמיד באַגײַסטערט און אינספּירירט פֿונעם ייִדיש־אָפּטימיזם. אין 1979 האָט דער טאַטע, מרדכי שעכטער – דער דעמאָלטיקער אויספֿיר־סעקרעטאַר פֿון דער ייִדיש־ליגע – געשריבן אין אַ…

100 years after its founding, can a Yiddish institute serve a people who don’t speak the language?

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By: Jewish Website

March 24, 2025

The YIVO institute, an archive, library and research institution on Eastern European Jewish civilization, recently encountered a novel problem in its 100 year history. In its early days in Europe,…

Yiddish songs in 4-part harmony IHO International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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By: Jewish Website

January 27, 2025

The Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus דער ייִדישער פֿילהאַרמאָנישער כאָר Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor Seth Weinstein, Pianist IN HONOR OF International Holocaust Remembrance Day Three songs in Yiddish performed in four-part harmony with English…

The Legacy of Menachem Mike Fox Z”L

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By: Jewish Website

January 22, 2025

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene mourns the passing of Menachem Mike Fox. Mike was a dedicated performer and teacher of Yiddish folk song, a poet, and one of the creators of…