Culture

The AT&T Girl’s surprising call to action

For actress Milana Vayntrub — herself a Soviet Jewish refugee — a vacation inspired her to speak up and act on behalf of Syrians arriving on Greece's shores.

American Jewish figure skater Max Aaron finishes 8th at Worlds

Aaron, a U.S. national champion figure skater, has said he grew up looking to Jewish athletic giants for inspiration.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Yiddish, With Jewish Slaves

Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Yiddish: sounds crazy, no? But across 19th-century Russia and eastern Europe, Jews eagerly devoured Russian Jewish writer Isaac Meir Dik’s (1807-1893) Yiddish version of the antislavery classic. Dik’s 1868 translation, renamed Slavery or Serfdom, presents an antebellum South like something from an alternate universe: now the slaves (and the masters […]