Culture

This inspiring NHL draft pick isn’t Jewish, but he has a Yiddish name

Zayde Wisdom is a hockey success story who rose from childhood poverty in Toronto to the NHL.

This 102-year-old Jewish grandma is going viral for mailing her absentee ballot in a hazmat suit

Beatrice Lumpkin, born in 1918, during the height of the Spanish Flu pandemic, is a lifelong activist and teacher.

Jewish poet Louise Gluck wins Nobel Prize in Literature

The granddaughter of Hungarian Jewish immigrants was awarded for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

Obninsk, Russia, home of the world’s first nuclear power plant, gets its first synagogue

2 Jewish stars helped power the Seattle Storm to a WNBA championship

Supreme Court dismisses Jewish rock star’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ lawsuit

Diego Schwartzman advances to French Open semifinals with 5-hour upset of Dominic Thiem

A Jewish artist hid hundreds of her paintings in a house near Prague during the Holocaust. Now the works need a home.

A screenshot from a Lost Tribe Esports tournament where participants played Rocket League, a game in which flying cars play soccer. (Screenshot)

Jewish and into video games? There’s an esports league for that.

Project to help struggling Israeli music industry produces covers of 50 classic Israeli songs

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