This week I've been teaching an online workshop at Yiddish New York about Ashkenazi Jewish women's customs and practices. For the past...

In this story by the famous Sholem Aleichem, the chickens of an un named shtetl organise a revolt against the pre-Yom Kiper custom of...

In kneytlakh-leygn and feldmestn, it seems that it was believed that by laying the candle wicks around the cemetery they would be imbued...