The Archive

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Everything published, in reverse chronological order.


News

Six years after Squirrel Hill, what the community actually changed

A grant-funded mental-health network, a security-coordination model now copied in fourteen cities, and a question about what comes next.

Aaron Friedman · May 12, 2026

Culture

The quiet Yiddish revival happening in five American universities

Enrollment in undergraduate Yiddish has tripled in a decade. The students aren't who you'd guess and they aren't studying what you'd think.

Devorah Steiner · May 1, 2026

Rights

Rights: how hostage families coordinated a four-capital push for new disclosures

A working group of relatives spent eight weeks building a single ask. It landed last week. The mechanics are quietly important.

Tamar Goldfarb · Apr 29, 2026

Diaspora

Diaspora: the Persian-Jewish archive that's quietly being assembled in Los Angeles

Ninety hours of oral history. Six thousand photographs. A 2,500-year community telling itself for the first time on its own terms.

Yael Hakimian · Apr 17, 2026

History

History: how Pittsburgh's Jewish community arrived

Three waves, 130 years, one neighborhood. A short history drawn from the Rauh Jewish Archives — and what it tells us about what's still here.

Eli Rosenfeld · Apr 2, 2026