New Year’s Eve

Do Germans wish each other ‘Shanah Tovah’ on New Year’s Eve?

Many linguists believe the greeting "guten Rutsch" is among the hundreds of Yiddish words used by German speakers today.

Dutch Jewish family’s home vandalized in anti-Semitic attack

The assailants in the New Year’s Eve incident shouted “cancer Jews” and “Free Palestine.”

The Jew Who Got the Ball Dropping on Times Square

One million people are expected to cram into New York’s Times Square tonight to watch a giant crystal ball descend. One billion people will tune in from all over the world. The man who started the tradition was newspaper magnate Adolph S. Ochs. The son of German-Jewish immigrants, he began his career at 11 […]