Revived Hebrew News Today

'Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel Before 1948,' opens this week, shows how the old language survived in the new Israel - sometimes hiding in plain sight

At the beginning of the 20th century, Yiddish and Hebrew were rivals to become the language of the future Jewish state.

(New York Jewish Week) — Just before the end of the second millennium, Ezer Weizman, then president of Israel, visited the University of Cambridge to familiarize himself with the famous