A recently released music video weaves together the classic Yiddish hit “Mein Yiddishe Mame” (“My Jewish Mother”) with a modern hip-hop tribute to a more contemporary Jewish mother. In its first two ...

There are more than a few songs that pay homage to the Ashkenazi Jewish mother. They’re schmaltzy, but if you’ve half a brain and any measure of experience, you can taste the irony like the tang in ...

In 1998, when Alan Strozenberg was dating his now-wife, Ticiana, he told his mother about a romantic European trip he was planning to take with his girlfriend. Her response: “OK, when are we going?” ...

There’s no Jewish mother in the kitchen at Vaughan’s A Yiddishe Mame, but the traditional Russian-Jewish dishes come close. The logo draws me to A Yiddishe Mame. The nonkosher Jewish restaurant, open ...

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Shortly after the passing of Miriam, the preeminent Yiddishe Mama, the stone that accompanied our ancestors in the desert for forty years, from which water flowed miraculously, ceased its flow. The ...