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(Wikimedia Commons; collage by Grace Yagel) via JTA
October 19, 2021, 12:59 pm
Oxford courses on 12 rare Jewish languages aim to keep heritages alive
Languages being taught - including Judeo-Greek, Judeo-Neo-Aramaic and Karaim - range in number of speakers, from millions to none.
By JTA
Orthodox Jewish men gather on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah at the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. (Photo by Ron Adar / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
October 19, 2020, 11:36 am
Satmar wedding made ‘family only’ after plans for ‘thousands’ of guests halted
New York governor issued a formal public health order to prevent a planned simcha in Williamsburg, due to be attended by tens-of-thousands of well-wishers
By JTA
Books (Photo by Kimberly Farmer on Unsplash)
January 16, 2020, 2:25 pm
Ofsted exposes school where pupils ‘can’t distinguish Yiddish and English’
Inspectorate issues damning report against Stamford Hill school’s 'poor' teaching in secular studies
By Jewish News Reporter
Screenshot of the deleted tweet sent by the BBC World Service last week
January 6, 2020, 11:03 am
BBC apologises after tweet on dwindling Yiddish speakers does not cite Shoah
The broadcaster's World Service has since removed the tweet intended to promote a radio program about the history of the language
By Mathilde Frot
Classroom
April 26, 2019, 11:21 am
Yiddish could be taught in New York schools
NYC representative working to open the programme in a kindergarten classroom in autumn 2020,
By Jenni Frazer
From the YIVO archive: Jewish socialists at a picnic around 1902
October 18, 2018, 12:29 pm
Hidden gem of Jewish world comes to London
Jenni Frazer meets the man in charge of a unique archive of ‘just about everything to do with the Jews of  Eastern Europe’
By Jenni Frazer
Italian composer Professor Francesco Lotoro
March 12, 2018, 9:04 am
Concert in Jerusalem to feature music rescued from concentration camps
Italian composer Francesco Lotoro made it his life's work to track down previously lost work from the Holocaust and orchestrate in a concert
By Jewish News Reporter
Menashe Lustig plays Menashe, with his on-screen son Rieven, portrayed by Ruben Niborski
December 8, 2017, 12:42 pm
A true portrayal of Chasidic life
The first film in 70 years made entirely in Yiddish has won critical praise. Its director tells Francine Wolfisz about the difficulties of making it – and the rewards
By Francine Wolfisz
Left: Autobiography of Bebe Epstein, a 5th-grade student in the Sofia Gurevich School, 1933-1934. Right: Pinkas (Communal Record Book) of the Hevra Lomde Shas (Learners of the Talmud Society) in Lazdijai, a town in southwestern Lithuania, 1836. Credit: Courtesy of Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York.
October 25, 2017, 4:35 pm
Trove of 170,000 documents lost during the Holocaust discovered
Chest of files thought to have been destroyed by the Nazis unearthed, including manuscripts, religious texts and poems
By JTA
Steve Garelick
September 26, 2017, 4:41 pm
Meet the Jewish Union rep who led the charge against Uber
Jenni Frazer meets Steve Garelick, who was at the forefront of the GMB Union's legal battle against the private car hire firm
By Jenni Frazer
Flooding in Texas on August 31
September 4, 2017, 10:21 am
Dell chief pledges £28m to rebuild Texas after Hurricane Harvey
Texan Jewish billionaire Michael Dell commits to handing over millions to help those affected by the storm
By JTA
Kadya are one of the main performances in the festival.
July 13, 2017, 11:07 am
Leading Yiddish festival reveals ‘unseen diasporas’
Yael Breuer reveals how Summer Weimar provides leading educational programmes about Jewish culture.
By Yael Breuer
June 6, 2017, 7:43 pm
Chasidic man ‘kidnapped and raped’ ex-wife, court hears
Unnamed strictly Orthodox individual from Stamford Hill reportedly carried out attack in a a dungeon-style cellar at his warehouse
Yad Vashem's hall of names
February 21, 2017, 2:43 pm
Shoah survivor Yaffa Eliach’s personal collection dedicated at Yad Vashem
More than 500 archival containers weighing over a ton belonging to Eliah was shipped to the Holocaust museum for dedication on Monday
By JTA
Orthodox Jews in Stamford Hill
January 26, 2017, 3:43 pm
Counselling course for Orthodox men is ‘first-of-its-kind’
A ground-breaking counselling scheme has been launched, specially tailored for men in the Charedi community
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