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Alliance Colony: Inside efforts to revive America’s first Jewish farm

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By: Benyamin Cohen

January 31, 2026

For the latest installment of our Holy Ground series featuring stories of Jewish resilience and reinvention, Benyamin Cohen visited the century-old South Jersey farm where one family is trying to…

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”…

“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…

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…

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s Production of Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent) receives Drama Desk Award

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By: WorldMediaNetworks

June 12, 2024

We are excited and proud to share with you, our friends and patrons, that National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Revue for our production of Amid…

Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent): Nominated for Drama Desk Award!

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By: WorldMediaNetworks

May 1, 2024

We are excited and proud to share the news that our production of Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent) was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Musical Revue. Tsvishn Falndike…

Documentary Film Traces Life, Works of Yiddish Poet Avrom Sutzkever

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By: Yiddish Book Center

October 28, 2021

Released in 2021, Ver Vet Blaybn? (Who Will Remain?), a documentary that follows one woman’s journey to understand her grandfather, Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, is resonating with audiences and having success…

The Yiddishist side of upcoming ‘Jeopardy!’ guest host Mayim Bialik

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By: Forward

August 30, 2021

Jewish actress, neuroscientist and newly-minted “Jeopardy!” host Mayim Bialik is not just talented and smart. She speaks Yiddish and has proved herself to be a wonderful Yiddish comedienne, too. To…

Yosef Guri, who collected Yiddish proverbs, has died

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By: Bella Bryks Klein

April 29, 2021

ד״ר יוסף גורי, אַ פּראָפֿעסאָר פֿון רוסיש וואָס איז ווי אַ קינד על־פּי־נס ניצול געוואָרן פֿונעם חורבן און האָט געשטרעבט צו פֿאַראייביקן דאָס לשון פֿון זײַנע אומגעבראַכטע עלטערן, איז די…

On 78th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Virtual Gathering

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By: Congress for Jewish Culture

April 20, 2021

Each April 19th, we gather at the stone in the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Plaza in Riverside Park to mark the anniversary of the single greatest instance of Jewish armed resistance…