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- In the most talked-about Epstein File exchange, a lesson in YiddishThe tranche of documents known as the Epstein Files is full of odd, grammatically dubious, correspondence. Perhaps the most scrutinized exchange also contains a Yiddish word. Fittingly, for such a shande as Jeffrey Epstein, it’s a word for distress. In emails from March 2018, the financier and convicted pedophile’s brother Mark opened a dialogue asking... […]
- When Jews really did wage a ‘war on Christmas’(JTA) — On a frigid winter’s day in 1906, tens of thousands of Jewish parents in New York’s Lower East Side and Brooklyn kept their children home from school. It wasn’t a snow day, but a protest: Activists and the Yiddish press had called for a boycott of the Christmas assemblies and pageants that they... […]
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