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 ...
But his inner Jewish fire never dimmed ... the chanting of the prayers, the singing of his Nigunim and the unmitigated joy emanating from his beaming face. I once said to my grandfather ...
Levitt and Sher explore Hasidic Jewish ‘nigunim’ (communal melodies) with a spirit of harmonic and improvisational ...
The escalation of antisemitism in the wake of the Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror massacre in Israel has paved the way for attacks on Jewish communities around the world ...
JOBAR, Syria (AP) — In this Damascus suburb, the handful of remaining Jews in Syria can again make pilgrimages to one of the world’s oldest synagogues where people from throughout the region ...
Over 800 people joined the Central Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen in Buenos Aires, Argentina uniting the Chabad community with ...
"Jewish, Muslim, Christian, they're all here, they want to believe they have a space now..."Except they're not. In the 1940s, Syria's Jewish community was 40,000 strong. Today just an estimated 3 ...
Some of the biggest rock stars in history happen to be Jewish, either by birth or conversion. Given the rich musical tradition of the Jewish people, this should hardly come as a surprise.
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In a Damascus suburb, the head of Syria’s tiny Jewish community visits the newly accessible Joba synagogue ...
By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their homeland in Judaea across the Mediterranean and there were major Jewish communities in Syria, Egypt, and Greece. Practicing a ...