New Yiddish Songs of Grief, Fury, and Love” draws on the history of the language in ways validating to Jews who share the ...

With no condemnation of Hamas, 'Lider mit Palestine' draws on a long Jewish history of subversive music to express solidarity with the Palestinians and oppose the war ...

Kalaniyot, a faculty-led program, aims to strengthen US ties with Israeli researchers from diverse backgrounds.

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) graduation ceremony for the Class of 2025 on May 29, student body president Megha Vemuri used her commencement speech to strongly criticise ...

At a politically charged commencement ceremony on Thursday, MIT’s class of 2025 president Megha Vemuri, an Indian-American student, used her platform to deliver a bold pro-Palestinian message ...

Tensions on campus over the war in Gaza are simmering again this summer, with all the elements for another high-profile confrontation — and it couldn’t be happening at a more inopportune time.

MIT students gathered at Cambridge City Hall Monday evening to call for the city to ask MIT to stop suspending pro-Palestinian student activists who engage in political activity and writing. The ...

MIT Graduate Students for Palestine voted for the “MIT community to cut all research and financial ties with the Israeli military” in 2024, according to the school’s faculty newsletter.

MIT President Sally Kornbluth responded immediately after Vemuri’s remarks. Acknowledging the right to free expression, she reminded the audience of the day’s significance.

Waletzky, 77, is a prolific composer of new Yiddish song; “Lider mit Palestine” grew in part out of a songwriting workshop he co-led at the Yiddish New York festival in December 2023.