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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton A. Klein (Joseph Savetsky/courtesy of ZOA) JTA — Seven months after being asked to kick out a group over allegations of racism, the board of directors of Boston’s leading Jewish coalition has come to a conclusion: Yes, the US group’s president “elevated white supremacist voices” — but it shouldn’t be ejected. That’s the recommendation of an internal report issued last month by the leadership of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Boston, which includes dozens of local groups and community members representing virtual...

Duolingo is giving users who order in Yiddish a free bagel on the course launch date. (Duolingo) JTA — When Meena Viswanath signed on more than two years ago to help Duolingo, the world’s largest language learning app, create its first Yiddish course, she knew it wouldn’t be easy. But Viswanath, the daughter and granddaughter of famed Yiddish scholars who speaks Yiddish at home with her children, assumed most of the difficulties would be technical. She wasn’t prepared for the challenge of blending the academic Yiddish she knows with the everyday dialect spoken by her Hasidic colleagu...

How Duolingo created a Yiddish course with a secular scholar and Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn April 1, 2021 5:01 pm Duolingo's "flag" for the Yiddish course showcases an aleph with a "komets" diacritic, a foundational Yiddish letter. (Duolingo) Advertisement (JTA) — When Meena Viswanath signed on more than two years ago to help Duolingo, the world’s largest language learning app, create its first Yiddish course, she knew it wouldn’t be easy. But Viswanath, the daughter and granddaughter of famed Yiddish scholars who speaks Yiddish at home with her children, assu...

Read this article in Yiddish During the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic last year, when organizing events over Zoom was still a novelty, Rabbi Avram Mlotek and “Golden Land Concerts and Connections” president Moishe Rosenfeld put together a Third Seder online in an effort to bring together Yiddish aficionados unable to otherwise attend any seder at all. The Third Seder was a popular tradition in the afternoon Yiddish schools and Yiddishist organizations from the 1920s to the 1990s, especially in New York. The Workers Circle ran a massive Third Seder at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in...

Will it be possible to achieve unity over the working definition of antisemitism when Israel is the sticking point? Yes, says the Conference of Presidents leadership; no, say progressive groups