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Like the letters I've read by Yiddish writer Chaim Grade, they expose vulnerabilities, often unwittingly, on the letter writer’s part.

Like the letters I’ve read by Yiddish writer Chaim Grade, they expose vulnerabilities, often unwittingly, on the letter writer’s part.

The Forwards listing of all articles written by Rose Waldman

In “Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle Against Free Love,” a sendup of the socialists, anarchists and intellectuals who populated New Yor

Works written decades ago, often by female Jewish immigrants, were dismissed as insignificant or unmarketable. But in the past several years, translators devoted to the literature are making it available to a wider readership.

In the yeshiva I attended, Yiddish was spoken and we read the text of the Rebbes Yiddish sermons, but secular Yiddish literature was unknown.

Rabbi Yossi Newfield is the founder of Jewish Pastoral Services.

American Jews like me grew up in with an incomprehensible loss of language and living Jewish culture. But those ‘flown letters,’ targeted for erasure by the Holocaust and Soviet repression, are now coming home

A law extending the jurisdiction of Israel's rabbinical courts over non-Israeli agunot has already helped free 80 women. And that's just one tool in our arsenal

From the blog of Matt Abelson at The Times of Israel