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Yiddishkayt (organization) In May, 2013, Yiddishkayt Executive Director Robert Adler Peckerar published an open letter on the organization's website lamenting the "state of Jewish philanthropy" in the wake of his attempts to fundraise for the Helix Project. According to Adler Peckerar, his solicitations were met on multiple occasions with criticisms that the trip did not feature "enough death," did not visit Israel, and was open to non-Jewish students. Additionally, a Jewish studies scholar was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article as saying that the Helix Project's focus on the role of secular yiddishkayt in historical Jewish identity was "just stupid" and an "attempt to rewrite Jewish history."
Yiddishkayt (organization) Also in 2013, the Los Angeles Times published a story documenting Adler Peckerar's discovery of the dilapidated Mount Zion Cemetery (Los Angeles, California) in East Los Angeles and the grave of the Yiddish writer Lamed Shapiro. Following the article's publication, Los Angeles philanthropist Shlomo Rechnitz donated $250,000 towards the cemetery's restoration, a project undertaken by a rabbi from Chabad of Downtown Los Angeles. In a blog post on the Yiddishkayt website, Adler Peckerar criticized the restoration efforts on the part of Chabad and the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, especially given the leftist politics and secularism of Lamed Shapiro and many other Los Angeles Jews interred at Mount Zion. "Rather than to look at what a neglected cemetery might tell us about a community’s relationship to its past or reconsider the disregard shown to its once-distinguished cultural icons," Adler Peckerar wrote. "The immediate reaction was to cover our collective shame and get renovations started."
Yiddishkayt (organization) Since the early 2010s, under the directorship of Robert Adler Peckerar, Yiddishkayt's focus has shifted to occupy a more international and digital presence. The most significant venture has been the Helix Project, an immersive summer travel education program for university students. Since 2011, Yiddishkayt has taken groups of students on subsidized trips through the historic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (modern-day Belarus, Poland, and Lithuania), a territory that was home to millions of Yiddish-speaking Litvak Jews and where Hebrew was recognized as an official language. The Helix Project is designed to immerse its participants in the multi-ethnic culture of Jewish Lithuania, and students visit notable sites in Eastern European Jewish cultural and political history, including the urban centers of Minsk, Grodno, Brest-Litovsk, Bialystok, and Vilnius, as well as places relevant to the lives of Yiddish cultural figures such as the poets Moyshe Kulbak and Abraham Sutzkever, the actor and director Shloyme Mikhoels, anarchist thinker and activist Emma Goldman, and the members of the General Jewish Labour Bund. Accompanying the Helix students are scholars in the fields of Jewish language, literature, and history, as well as writers, musicians, and artists who incorporate Yiddish language and culture into their work. Beginning in April, 2015 Yiddishkayt will offer a similar trip for adults, called Yiddishkayt Expeditions.