YIVO studied a living Yiddish culture. What happened when that world was nearly destroyed?

Click Here to Read or Listen to: YIVO studied a living Yiddish culture. What happened when that world was nearly destroyed? Kalman Weiser’s new history follows the institute from Vilna to New York, where it had to preserve a vanished world and cultivate a future By Andrew Silow-Carroll on the JTA website on  October 11, 2026.

Why Does It Feel Like We Are Living in the Worst of Times?

Click Here to Read: Why Does It Feel Like We Are Living in the Worst of Times? The psychology behind our belief that the world is getting worse by Gurnek Bains Ph.D. on his A Global Lens blog on the Psychology Today blogs on October 8, 2026.

Dark Clouds of Factory Smoke Obscure Clark Avenue Bridge Image: Frank John Aleksandrowicz (1921–2014)  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.