Monty Pickle, star of the children’s series The Monty Pickle Show, recently joined Rukhl Schaechter, host of the Forward’s ...

“Schmegoogle: Yiddish Words for Modern Times” by Daniel Klein is available at Explore Booksellers in Aspen (221 E. Main St., 970-925- 5336, explorebooksellers.com) and Bookbinders in Basalt (Willits ...

A reader identified as “JA” wants to know: “Does the English word ‘slug,’ as in to slug someone, come from Yiddish shlogn, to hit? They certainly sound very similar.” My thinking about this went ...

Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik has gone viral after sharing the real meaning behind well-known Yiddish words. Bialik, 47, who comes from a family of Jewish immigrants has been speaking Yiddish since she ...

(RNS) — A few days ago, I found myself watching old clips from “Saturday Night Live.” One of my favorites is Mike Myers as Linda Richman, which is apparently a loving tribute to his mother-in-law, ...

The richness of our language owes much to English being a wonderfully mongrelized tongue that uses words and expressions adopted from almost everyone. This is a good thing, but it creates pitfalls to ...

You might think that the biggest news to come out of the 2019 Scripps Spelling Bee would be the historic eight-way tie in which the competition ended. Well, you’d probably be right. But what about the ...

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A California seventh-grader aced “Yiddishkeit” and later the Hebrew word “keriah” on the way to being named one of eight co-champions. OK, not quite, but last week, when the first rounds of the finals ...

The final of the nation’s most prestigious spelling bee took a Yiddish turn Thursday night. Scripps National Spelling Bee finalist Jairam Hathwar, a 13-year-old from Corning, New York, was asked to ...

The five questions made the three contestants shvitz — and longtime fans of the iconic show gave them a zetz on social media. “Jeopardy!” fans have been hard hit by the loss of Alex Trebek, who died ...