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“Nu” is one of these Yiddish words that has various meanings, like a call for somebody to do something: “Nu? Come on!” But it can also have a more curious implication, as if to ...
Get information and tickets here. Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired the book, “Sons and Daughters ...
US immigration authorities late Tuesday detained a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University near Boston who voiced support for divesting from Israel amid the war with Hamas in Gaza and have ...
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Hundreds of Palestinians protested against Hamas rule and against the war in at least three locations in Gaza on Tuesday, in a relatively rare occurrence in the Strip ...
“There’s a ton of Yiddish, especially with Bubbie,” he said. “She’s just throwing Yiddish stuff all over the place.” The director, who has a family history in New York and lived there himself for a ...
If you know Yiddish and live in or frequently visit Boston, Chicago, Michigan, Montreal or Toronto, you can now join other Yiddish speakers on organized trips to museums, concerts, hikes or ...
“There’s a Yiddish word, beshert… It means ‘meant to be,’” she tells CNN. A Californian university professor left the US for what he thought would be a six-month trip to Japa ...
Despite its name and address, 'New Absolute Bagel' does not appear to have any particular relation to the old one. The former home of pushcarts, pickle peddlers and textile wholesalers welcomes a ...