While the Miami Jewish Film Festival, this year celebrating its 29th edition, has continued to grow, the number of films it ...

Anthropologist Samuel Shuman and Yiddish linguist Chaya Nove recently conducted a unique sort of joint fieldwork: they attended the annual Hasidic pilgrimage to Hungary that brings thousands of people ...

Sam Kellner faced charges, which were later dropped, after breaking the silence about abuse in his Brooklyn community. A federal judge in Brooklyn has denied a bid by New York City and the estate of ...

When Americans want to learn Yiddish, they usually sign up for classes at YIVO, the Yiddish Book Center or the Workers Circle. But when someone asks Rabbi Cody Bahir, the newly installed head of a ...

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Hasidic singer Shulem Lemmer performed this week at official Hanukkah parties at the White House, in the presence of US President Donald Trump. In an interview with Kol B'rama radio, Lemmer shared ...

A summer salad, salmon amore and crème brûlée are among the most popular dishes at Silk Spoon, the first kosher, sit-down fine dining restaurant on Staten Island. For Isaac Berg, who moved to the ...

Hollywood reactions to the death of Rob Reiner have been pouring in, and the cast of The Princess Bride is paying tribute to the late filmmaker. Reiner directed and co-produced the fantasy adventure ...

There were no shadchanim. No shidduch resumes. No checklists. No sophisticated online algorithms. Parents were largely ...

After the Hunt In the worst movie of his career so far, Luca Guadagnino dares to ask the pressing question, “What if safe space #MeToo Gen Z sexual abuse trigger warning woke campus pronouns?” Guided ...

Rabbi Julius Berman, who led the Orthodox Union and a myriad of other prominent Jewish communal organizations across the Orthodox and secular Jewish world, has died at 90. Born in Lithuania in 1935 to ...