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Free Jewish-Books Summer Camp!
When I was a kid, I got sent to a sports camp outside of Philadelphia. Which was sort of the ...
A Bintel Brief: A Bundle of Letters
This is the first page of a comic book I’m working on. It’s based on the Bintel Brief, a popular Yiddish ...
Sweet and Sour
In my grandparents’ homes, as in the shtetlach from whence they came, the food was sweet and sour – just ...
What Is a “Jewish Bakery”?
Not too long ago, during a radio interview centered on Inside the Jewish Bakery , the host asked me, “What ...
Jews, Non-Jews, and Being Losers Together
Yesterday, I put out a Twitter call: What should I write about? The always-dependable dlevy asked, in reply, “have you ...
Welcome Fellow Noshers!
Yiddish is a difficult language to translate, yet there are endless attempts at expressing these indefinite words that have happily ...
Tzenah Urenah
How the Yiddish translation of the Torah, Megillot and Haftarot became associated with women.
Esther Kreitman
Esther Singer Kreitman was a published author, but she was overshadowed by her brothers.
