Four Questions Ideas A NYC conference celebrates the cultural creativity of formerly Orthodox Jews YIVO hosts a two-day symposium on Jews who went “off the derech,” or religious path.
Beloved Borscht Belt entertainer Morris Katz remembered in new NYC exhibit “The Instant Art of Morris Katz,” the artist’s first-ever solo gallery show, opens at the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research on May 16.
Ideas YIVO digitizes writer Chaim Grade’s archive, a Yiddish treasure with a soap opera backstory Manuscripts, letters, photos and speeches from a giant of Yiddish literature, long kept out of view by his late widow, are now online.