Jordan Kutzik is the deputy editor of the Yiddish Forward. Contact him at kutzik@forward.com.
Jordan Kutzik
By Jordan Kutzik
-
News ‘G-d bless the Capitol Police’: Far-right protesters storm U.S. Capitol amid antisemitic claims over election
Updated: 4:59 pm EST. This is a breaking news story and will be updated as the situation develops. The violent storming of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday by far-right protesters came after 36 hours of protests in D.C. that centered on antisemitic conspiracy theories, including QAnon, and claims that George Soros and other prominent Jewish Americans…
-
Yiddish World WATCH: A mesmerizing performance of classic Yiddish play “The Dybbuk”
Read this article in Yiddish One hundred years since first spooking audiences in Eastern Europe, S. An-Sky’s “The Dybbuk” has possessed Zoom and YouTube. In 1920 the Vilna Troupe debuted its legendary production of the most well-known Yiddish play ever staged. Shane Baker, director of the Congress for Jewish Culture had long planned to mark…
-
Fast Forward Quebec court rejects ex-Hasidic couple’s suit over lack of secular education in yeshivas
Read this article in Yiddish A lawsuit brought by a Canadian ex-Hasidic couple who testified in court that they suffered years of underemployment after receiving a substandard secular education in suburban Montreal Hasidic schools has been tossed out, according to a report in the National Post. On Thursday, Quebec Superior Court Justice Martin Castonguay rejected…
-
Yiddish World The magic of Kadya Molodwsky’s children’s poetry – now in English
Read this article in Yiddish A new bilingual edition of Kadya Molodowsky’s enchanting Yiddish children’s poetry was recently published in Sweden. Edited and masterfully translated into English by Yaira Singer, “Through an Endless Stretch of Land” makes some of the most popular classic Yiddish children’s poetry available to a wider audience. Kadya Molodowsky (1894-1975), a…
-
Yiddish World What is Der Blatt, the Hasidic newspaper that hid news of a massive super-spreader wedding?
Read this article in Yiddish. Most media organizations would jump on the opportunity to expose a massive wedding held in violation of public health measures during the pandemic. New York Hasidic newspaper Der Blatt did the opposite: it hid the news so as not to tip off secular authorities. The wedding of Yoel Teitelbaum, grandson…
-
Yiddish World Podcast: A Jewish revolutionary tells her story
Read this article in Yiddish The Yiddish Book Center recently launched a unique podcast in which the actress, translator and Yiddish theater scholar Caraid O’Brien reads her own translation of the memoirs of a Russian revolutionary. The program, “The Last Maximalist,” recalls the extraordinary early years of Klara Klebanova, a Jewish girl who left her…
-
Yiddish World YIVO recognized by US government for saving cultural treasures
Read this article in Yiddish The Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded the YIVO Institute a grant of $119,433 to preserve four collections of materials related to the history of Yiddish theater and Jewish music. The grant was awarded through the federal program, Save America’s Treasures, which provides funding for the preservation of…
-
Yiddish World WATCH: A Belarusian protest song in Yiddish
Read this article in Yiddish Despite the brutal suppression of their nascent pro-democracy movement, protesters continue to fill the streets of Minsk and other Belarusian cities, calling for an end to Alexander Lukashenko’s 26-year dictatorial reign. While some Belarusians in New York are protesting in front of their homeland’s embassy, others in the diaspora are…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward ‘Rabbi rebellion’: 33 Orthodox rabbis endorse Harris
- 2
Opinion Almost all voting groups shifted toward Trump, except American Jews. Why?
- 3
Opinion I was a Bernie supporter. This year, I’m voting Trump. Here’s why liberal Jews like me made the switch
- 4
Opinion Here’s why Orthodox Jews are loyal to Trump — even if they don’t love him
In Case You Missed It
-
Culture A reunion project for Holocaust survivors and their families runs a race against time
-
Opinion In violent attack on Israelis in Amsterdam, an alarming cultural omen
-
Opinion A European Jewish leader on Amsterdam violence: ‘A line has been crossed’
-
Culture Should we call the violence against Israeli soccer fans a ‘pogrom?’
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
