"[3] Since its founding in 1995, Yiddishkayt has become the largest organization devoted to yiddishkayt west of the Hudson and has produced six Yiddish festivals, a high school Yiddish language education program, two local cultural fellowships, 30 Los Angeles premiere, 16 US premiere and 5 world premiere presentations devoted to Yiddish culture, 10 cross-cultural performances, and partnerships with over 25 organizations and venues, including the Workmen's Circle, REDCAT, University of California, Los Angeles, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
[12] Beginning in 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 Litvaks and where Yiddish was recognized as an official language.
The Fellowship now attracts artists and scholars from around the world for a year-long immersive program with a month-long residential component to explore Jewish history, culture, and art.
In the LA Times, Paley denounced the demolition and its consequences for Boyle Heights' historical memory, calling the community center "a place where multicultural politics began.
"[15] In May, 2013, Yiddishkayt Executive Director Rob 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.
"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.