(New York Jewish Week) – Like many great ideas, “The Mamales,” a Yiddish singing group, began on a summer night at a bar on the Lower East Side. The women who make up the trio, Maya Jacobson, Raquel ...

(New York Jewish Week) — Last fall, when Binyumen Shaechter started putting together the 2023 repertoire for the Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus, he thought an apt theme and title would be “Chutzpah!

Part of Central Park’s iconic SummerStage series, “New York Sings Yiddish” will take place on June 14. (New York Jewish Week) — This summer, New Yorkers will have the opportunity to hear their ...

People who want to learn more about Yiddish culture can now sign up for several online courses at YIVO. The classes will be taught in English. In the course “Seasons in Yiddish Song,” the Yiddish ...

A group of klezmer musicians was jamming in Lower Manhattan, when its fiddler suddenly stopped and encouraged a preteen ...

After taking the internet by storm with their harmonic and jazz-infused takes on traditional Yiddish melodies, The Shvesters are making their Philly debut with a concert at the Weitzman National ...

A familiar face returns to Columbia next week, carrying with him a sound that's both ingrained and — till now — has gone unsung. Jordan Wax will give a matinee concert Dec. 29 at Hitt Records, ...

Join in this Wednesday, June 14 in Central Park, when National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene and Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage present New York Sings Yiddish!, featuring an illustrious ...

Cookie Blattman is doing her part to keep the Yiddish language and culture alive and well! I heard Cookie sing for the first time at a Child Survivors/Hidden Children of the Holocaust meeting in Boca ...

Yiddish is the language of the Jews of Eastern Europe and all the places to which they spread. It is the language of socialists and capitalists, the Partisans who fought the Nazis and most of the ...

People have been responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways - some by donating money to humanitarian projects, others by protesting. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs ...