In this week’s Yiddish Song of the Week blog, Forverts managing editor Itzik Gottesman writes about Yiddish writer Ita Taub and “Oy Vey Mame” a song she remembered from her shtetl. Ita (or Eta) Taub ...

Over the past several months, every time Jewish rapper Kosha Dillz and his event producer friend and collaborator Adam Swig turned on the television, they saw more violence facing the Black community.

Congregation Shaarai Shomayim will offer a weekend of learning and laughing Friday to Sunday, Oct. 27-29. Max Edwards, a young rabbinical student, will lead the scholarin- residence program at the ...