Jewish Languages

The Sound of Jewish Diversity

What is Jewish music?For some it is the violins of Klezmer. For others it is Leonard Bernstein. For Sarah Aroeste ...

Purim is right around the corner! Among the traditions of the holiday is the exchanging of gifts of food with ...

It was not until she was already on her way to adulthood, that singer Sarah Aroeste discovered the connection between ...

Learn how to say the Mourner’s Kaddish. For more on the Kaddish, click here and here. Sign up for a ...

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past…”When William Faulkner wrote these words in Requiem for a Nun, I’m pretty certain he ...

One of my favorite things about my new role as a full-time historian at the ISJL is getting to meet ...

When I think of home, I imagine the physical space I return to at night, the one with the white-washed ...

Often reality is stranger than fiction; The vote for one of the first major strike in American history was taken ...

Ladino first cast its magic spell on me in childhood. It always struck me as a graceful, rolling language, one ...

I’m a Latina Jew. I live in New York City, famous for the diversity of its population; after all, 37 ...

A few days ago my novel, Fields of Exile , was published in the USA, and this month marks exactly ...

Mom. Mommy. Ima. Madre. Mother. No matter how many ways I say it, the concept still catches me by surprise ...