The first word posed in competition this morning on the first day of the storied Scripps National Spelling Bee was “yiddishkeit,” a beloved phrase from Yiddish that sums up Ashkenazi Jewish culture in ...

Last week’s Grammy Award to the Klezmatics for their first all-English album, “Wonder Wheel,” was joyously reported by many Jewish news outlets, including this newspaper. For all the media coverage, ...

The term “Yiddishkeit” is open to several interpretations, including “Yiddish culture” and “Yiddish sensibility,” but the concept is too expansive to be fully conveyed with a mere word. The same can ...

There is a Yiddish word, bashert, that means fate or destiny, but it’s more than that, says Miriam Koral, director of the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language. Its connotation is both ...

Editor’s Note: This is the third of three articles on California. What does it mean to be a Jewish neighborhood? And how do we, as Jewish travelers, experience such places? I thought about this ...

A polyglot playground for anyone enamored by the siesta lifestyle. A long the Valencian coast near the province of Alicante, the synagogues have a British accent. So does the breakfast touted at pubs ...

The word summer generates feelings of relaxation, happiness and warmth. Some sit all winter wrapped in their coats and wait for summer. For some, summer is a chance to cast off the heavy yoke of ...

The worldwide pandemic has threatened many of the businesses you rely on every day, but don’t let it take away your source for local news. Now more than ever, we need your help to ensure nothing but ...

Reviewed Work: World Of Our Fathers: The Journey Of The East European Jews To America And The Life They Found And Made by Irving Howe ...

This Monday, the 12 th of Tammuz, marks the anniversary of the birth of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn – known as the Rayatz – in 1880. It also marks the day he was ...