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Schott’s Yiddish Vocab

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Today on the New York Times Ben Schott's Vocab Blog is tackling Yiddish. And Wex is the moderator! At the time of writing (less than 24 hours after the blog went live) there are over 380 comments where readers have asked questions, answered questions and added their voice. Who said Yiddish is dead? So go to this page on the... Read more here

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Passover dishes

Just in time for Pesach Michael Wex discusses Passover dishes. In this lecture given at the National Yiddish Book Center in 2008 Wex talks about all the different types of kosher dishes and what they did back in the old... Read more here

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Happy Purim, everyone!

Hope you all had a great holiday! Read more here

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Old Jewish Man River

We were sent this by Theodore Bikel - our dear, dear friend. It was just too damned good to keep to ourselves. Mary Tyler Moore producer Stan Daniels does Old Man River as an old Jewish guy. Enjoy! (And if you receive this via email and can't see the YouTube player, just click on the link to bring you to the website and you can look at it... Read more here

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How to Be a Mentsh ends up in the pulpit…

...albeit a virtual one. It's long been our hope that How to Be a Mentsh would end up being discussed in the various flavours of synagogue across the English-speaking world (no translations have been commissioned as yet). And now it's happened. Rabbi Mark Fasman of the Shaare Zedek Synagogue of St. Louis, MO references the book in his January edition of "Message from the Rabbi" which discusses the three... Read more here