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

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 ...

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 ...

BOSTON (JTA) — Robert Lappin, a major giver to Jewish causes who sponsored thousands of teens to visit Israel, died at 98. Over the span of decades, the successful businessman, who died last ...

He had ties to the likes of former Massachusetts governor Duval Patrick and was regarded as a generous mentor. BOSTON (JTA) — Albert Sherman, a pillar of the Boston Jewish community who was ...