In September 2022, Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Jina Amini was killed by Iran's morality police in Tehran for allegedly wearing her hijab too loosely. Award-winning British-Iranian journalist Jonathan Harounoff demystifies the context leading up to the historic protests to this crime inside Iran and abroad and examines the potential future ramifications. He will be joined in […]

Join Christa P. Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, as she shares video highlights from the project’s growing collection. We’ll hear from actors who began their careers on the Eastern European stage, familiar faces from American screens who got their start in Yiddish theater, avid Yiddish theater-goers who share memories […]