Etiqueta: League for Yiddish

When she’s upset, she likes to walk over to the library, pick out a random book, sit down in the reading room and just relax. ‮ווען זי ווערט אויפֿגערעגט האָט זי ליב צוצושפּאַצירן אין ביבליאָטעק,...

I thought I saw an apparition levitating, but it must have just been my imagination.

The nursing mother was so happy when her husband started to feed the baby with a bottle. די זייגערין האָט זיך אַזוי דערפֿרייט ווע‮ן איר מאַן האָט אָנגעהויבן געבן דעם קינד דאָס פֿלעשל. The baby lay...

Purim nonsense rhyme: אַ גוטן פּו֜רים, אַ֜לע׳ך‮ <מלאך>‮! וווּ איך גיי פֿ‮אַל איך‮, די באָרד איז מי‮ר לאַנג,‮ דאָס ווײַב איז מיר‮ קראַנק‮, הײַנט איז פּו֜רים, מאָרגן‮ איז אויס‮ –‮ גיט מיר אַ פּע֜ני <‮גראָשן> און וואַרפֿט מיך‮ אַרויס‮! A GUTN...

We hope and pray for a speedy end to the war and bloodshed in Ukraine. מיר האָפֿן און בעטן אויף אַ גיכן ‮סוף צו מלחמה און בלוט־פֿאַרגיסונג אין אוקראַיִנע. air raid: דער אָנפֿלי, ־⁠ען air-raid shelter: דער אָנפֿלי־⁠באַהאַלטער, ־⁠ס ally: דער...

Moyshe went out into the street and noticed a lot of traffic. He also noticed that his car was somehow not in the spot where he had parked it yesterday. Gone! He soon realized...

Out with the old, in with the new! We wish you all a good year, a happy year, and – most importantly – a healthy year! פֿון אַלטן אַוו‮עק, צום נײַעם פֿאָרויס! מיר ווינטשן אײַך אַלעמען אַ...

Winter officially starts in several days, on December 21. In the greater New York area there’s no sign yet of a real winter. No snow on the horizon, certainly no blizzards, and the weather...

Computer Science Week takes place annually in the US during the first full week of December. The week aims to inspire K-12 students to study computer science, advocate for equity in access to such...

The title of this 5-session series of Shmues comes from the classic College Yiddish study book. For many of us, it was the first text ever read in Yiddish. In the course, we will...