"January 20, 2026 marks the 120th anniversary of #ABintelBrief, the #Forward’s #advicecolumn, launched in 1906 by the paper’s founder and publisher, #AbCahan. Tackling the personal challenges of Eastern #European #Jewish immigrants, #Cahan and the #BintelBrief #columnists who followed him would dispatch their advice with humor, compassion, and honesty.

By 1906, #DerForverts, as the Forward is known in #Yiddish, had grown over its initial three decades to become the leading Yiddish-language #newspaper in the #UnitedStates. But A Bintel Brief — Yiddish for “a bundle of letters” — was something the paper hadn’t tried before. Well, not exactly.

In his introduction to the very first Bintel Brief, which is preserved online at the National Library of #Israel, Cahan explained that the new column had been inspired by a section of the paper devoted to letters to the editor that launched three years earlier."

https://forward.com/culture/798666/a-bintel-brief-120th-anniversary/