Shavuot (pronounced Shah-voo-OTE), Hebrew for “weeks,” has been observed since biblical times. It marks the passing of seven ...

The founding president of the Yiddish Book Center is retiring, confident that Yiddish literature has a future.

For people of the Jewish faith, the holiday known as Rosh Hashanah is happening now. Rosh Hashanah celebrates the Jewish New Year, which is different than the one that is celebrated on Jan. 1 ...

What is "shiksa" in Nobody Wants This? "Shiksa" is the Yiddish term to describe a non-Jewish woman, from the Hebrew word "sheketz," which means "abomination" or "blemish." Traditionally ...

The two-day celebration marks the start of the Jewish New Year and is filled with traditions, like eating a round challah and saying prayers near a body of water. This year, the holiday will ...

I doubt that many people would think of Yiddish. In mainstream American culture Yiddish — an Eastern European blend of German with a great many Hebrew, Aramaic and Slavic words — is these days ...

Hanukkah — often referred to as the festival of lights — reaffirms the ideals of Judaism, commemorating in particular the rededication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem through a Jewish ...

Two Israeli embassy staffers were killed by a lone gunman in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, May 21, as the pair left an evening event at the Capital Jewish Museum a little over a mile from ...