This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The talented actress Anabela Yaakov died in Tel Aviv on November 21st. She was 78. Anabela, who often appeared with the Israeli Yiddish ...

Among the most memorable events of my high school years was the Bais Yaakov convention I attended in Baltimore, sometime in the mid-1970s. Bais Yaakov is a network of schools and youth movements for ...

If one wanted to trace the beginnings of formal Jewish education for women in the modern era, one could do no better than to read Naomi Seidman’s Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement. This ...

UPDATE: The Jackson school district announced just before 5 p.m. Friday that the lawsuit has been withdrawn by Bais Yaakov and the $13.1 million sale will proceed with a closing date in early June. An ...