On Nov. 7-10, the Paris Yiddish Center will celebrate the creativity of Jewish life in Vilna and another Lithuanian city, ...

The Vilna Gaon speaks at length of the kedusha of the malachim in his commentary on the siddur. He explains that the malachim don’t wait for Israel to finish our kedusha below out of respect for us ...

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V ILNIUS — Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the passing of Fania Brantsovsky, the last ...

What if I told you one of the most famous and beloved Russian Jews of the 19th century—”the father of Yiddish poetry” no less ...

Weiner had been elected a delegate to the convention but was too ill to attend and was replaced by his wife. PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — Mark Weiner, a prominent Rhode Island Democratic fundraiser and ...

This approach is demonstrated exceptionally well in the teachings and life of the Vilna Gaon, one of the greatest Talmudic scholars of all time. His student, Rav Chaim of Volozhin, recounts how ...

The first exhibition was based on the life of Beba Epstein, a young Jewish woman who was born in 1922 in Vilna and went through the Holocaust. She was the only person from her family that survived.

(JTA) — Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the passing of Fania Brantsovsky, the last surviving member of the Jewish underground in the Vilna ghetto and a keeper of ...

(JTA) — Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the passing of Fania Brantsovsky, the last surviving member of the Jewish underground in the Vilna ghetto and a keeper of the ...