Zohran Mamdani is making a direct appeal to Brooklyn’s Hasidic community, targeting an influential constituency that often votes based on rabbinical guidance. In an open letter written in Hasidic ...

Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe and Russia, was once nearly extinguished. But now Jews drawn to the language for different reasons are keeping Yiddish alive. Before World War II, some ...

Mr. Stavans, a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a co-editor of the book “How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish.” For a language without a physical address that has ...

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — The scenes were jarring, as intended, and meant to provoke fear: neo-Nazis parading in front of Disney World and crowding a highway bridge in Orlando, shouting antisemitic slurs, ...

If I tell you that there are languages other than English that someone in America could live a whole life in, which would come to mind? Spanish, maybe? Chinese? Both are spoken in (among many other ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. Last month’s release of ...