Today, many of the biggest sites on the Internet are “blacking out” to protest SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill in the House) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) in the Senate. The protest is based around the idea that online piracy is certainly a problem that needs to be addressed, but that these bills [...]
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There is a steady increase of Yiddish lovers in their twenties and thirties. According to Neil Zagorin, bibliographer at The National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass, the Jewish ‘mainstream’ interest in Yiddish is growing because a number of young Jews “are reconsidering–or considering for the first time–the meaning of the Ashkenazic Jewish heritage as an important part [...]
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