s'iz tzayt....far....KNEYDLEKH!!!

איך האָב געהאַט נעכטן אַ חלום אוף ייִדיש...ס'יז גוט, נו??

shoutout to this guy whose side hustle is *squints* stealing horses from goyim

my goal for 2026 is to translate a system of a down song into yiddish

No.

being a yiddishist in philly rn is so sweet 😎

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

sad i can't translate the first one to "who the fuck is he?" to differentiate bw the other lines that don't have "zhe" in it

i messed up a single syllable in a yiddish sentence the other day so instead of saying my mom was mad at me, i said my mom was in cheese with me....

speaking another language is great. our uber driver who picked us up from the synagogue last night was playing christian music and i got to make a sarcastic comment vegn der heylekher muzik far undzer veg aheym

gonna start using this instead of "slop"

gonna start using this instead of "slop"

I signed up for a Yiddish penpal thingy and I got my penpal assigned....and it's someone I already know. LOL

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

the nyt style section vs. der spiegel

A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.

been listening to a perfect circle's eMOTIVe (2004) lately. post-9/11 rock music is consistently the only thing that speaks to me in this moment...sad american society hasn't changed at all in the last 20 years.

oooo i rly wanna take this yivo.org/SPR2026-Coll...

some yiddishists are really into bundist protest music to cope but me? i'm a child of 1970s jewish long island, the only thing that fills that niche for me is hard rock music <3

sometimes i think i shouldnt blow weed smoke directly at my century old shabbos candlesticks from poland but then i remember that all my ancestors chainsmoked cigarettes. so i think theyre fine

and that's on catholicism's impact!

reading and understanding transliterated yiddish is so much harder than just reading it in yiddish letters....

i finished empire of ai by karen hao which i would highly recommend. sam altman reminds me a lot of light yagami...extremely charming, manipulative in a way that's hard to pin down, and a compulsive liar who can seemingly wriggle his way out of everything. plus he has that murder notebook

I was once pulled over driving to work. I hadn’t done anything. But this cop pulled me over and was, I cannot stress enough, FURIOUS. Shouting at me to not grab my phone, to not even LOOK at it, to look at HIM. He just needed to yell and seethe at a woman. www.salon.com/2026/01/12/i...

lol had lunch with a well-known yiddish theatre actor who then revealed to me he was deeply racist, islamophobic, and anti-feminist. my list of people not to work with in the future grows by the day

mood

Eating ridiculously good in NYC this weekend :) food described in alt text

like if you cant see that the federal govt overturning roe v wade isn't state violence i dont really know what to tell you. women of all races are killed by the state every day. a gun isn't the only way to kill someone.

white women are almost never murdered by police, that is true. instead theyre murdered at the hands of their husbands, fathers, or brothers, or by the govt's complete control over their bodies as they die unnecessarily from reproductive healthcare complications. that's how good white women have it

this article refers to good as a white women more times than it does her name. it frames her personhood through the lens of her relationship to men (a wife and a mother) rather than her relationship to the world (a poet, a community member, a friend). www.inquirer.com/opinion/rene...

What should I do in NYC tonight?

Blintzes from b&h deli 🥰

i used to work as a hostess at a high-volume restaurant in times square and one time a mandarin duck made its way to central park to chill for a few days. and when i tell you EVERYBODY in new york was talking about this duck, tourists, locals, everyone. just thinking about that beautiful day

My resolution for year 2026 of the "Common Era" is to display nothing but open derision for the idea that right-wing Christians are somehow not Christians. No more pretending this is something that needs to be explained or debated. It's absurd. They're openly, visibly, politically Christian.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

אַ זייער פילאדעלפיענער שבת

anyway i know this is a yiddish account but i just had to unfollow a feminist i really liked for putting that misogynistic drivel on my feed first thing in the morning

so many people don't view sexual content as art and those people are wrong. sex isnt inherently "objectifying" as these people are claiming about heated rivalry, and in fact the sex scenes in the show are directed thoughtfully, lit beautifully, and acted well while centering the characters' emotions

and i know i'm defending fanfiction here but the thing is is that heated rivalry is not even fanfiction, it's original fiction.

Using fanfiction as a pejorative tells me a few things: you believe that art and "intellectual property" have an intrinsic and valid relationship; you refuse to engage seriously with a hobby dominated by women and queer people; and you don't know how to have fun lol

Bizarre thread that refuses to touch the fact that the show is adapted by and directed by a gay man, while simultaneously blaming women who write m/m for the professional sports industry's structural homophobia (ie, the NHL banning pride gear on the ice last year)

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

This turn-of-the-century Rosh HaShanah card goes hard. The Old Year struggles in the water while the New Year stands on the shore, and a Yiddish inscription urging the old year to "drown forever already"

today is my 30th birthday and i literally have covid. FARVOS!!!!

This is a certified truFact.

Santa Claus, the Elijah the Prophet of American Christmas - Di Forverts, 1917

i quit drinking coffee a few months ago bc i wasn't really enjoying it and i replaced it with caffeinated tea and it worked great for me. but when i tell you i've been drinking coffee every single day of yiddish new york lol

"i dont live missing" tfw academic conference all week and operating in two languages aj;fdjkad;lkal

i don't live missing in nyc but i do miss the nyc subway like a limb. imagine this: a safe, comfortable, reliable, rapid, and deeply interconnected transit system. philly could never