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Being Jewish | What is "being Jewish"? This web site is …

| October 20, 2021

Sections on this Site:How to Keep Shabbat The Basics of Being JewishLearning About JudaismBecoming Religious, and Your FamilyThe Jewish Cycle of LifeFrequently Asked QuestionsWho Is a Jew?Life, the Afterlife, and the SoulThe Jewish G-d: Whats He Like?History of our TraditionsThe Unchanged Tradition of JudaismThe Commandments of the TorahConversion IssuesThe Jewish Holidays of the YearAre Non-Orthodox Jews Still Jews?With Hashems help, more to come!How to Keep Shabbat Shabbos: A Personal ContractShabbos (Shabbat) as a sign.

Rescuers: Last Jew of Kabul making his way to Israel

| October 20, 2021

JERUSALEM (AP) The man known as the last Jew of Kabul could soon be heading to Israel, after agreeing to grant his estranged wife a religious divorce in a Zoom call a precondition for smooth entry to the Holy Land. Zebulon Simentov, who fled Afghanistan last month after the Taliban takeover, landed Sunday in Turkey on what his rescuers say is a final stop before traveling to Israel, perhaps as soon as this week.

‘Jew in the City’ Founder Rips ‘My Unorthodox Life’ for …

| October 20, 2021

Allison Josephs has had it with Hollywood's portrayal of the Orthodox Jewish community, and believes "My Unorthodox Life" is the latest contributor to negative stereotypes she calls downright dangerous. We got the "Jew in the City" founder outside the Peninsula Hotel in NYC, and she had some stern reactions to the controversial new Netflix series about Julia Haart -- CEO of modeling agency Elite World Group -- who left her Haredi community in 2013

Learning to speak Yiddish is the ultimate act of resistance to Jew hatred – Forward

| October 20, 2021

When my dad was growing up in Leningrad in the former Soviet Union, hed beat up the neighborhood kids for calling him a zhyda pejorative term for Jew thats akin to kike.

A Museum in New Orleans Tells the Story of Jews in the South – The New York Times

| October 20, 2021

This article is part of our latest Fine Arts & Exhibits special report, about how art institutions are helping audiences discover new options for the future.

Wrestling with the past: The burden of the Jewish legacy – DW (English)

| October 20, 2021

Those who speak "Tacheles" get straight to the point. This is a common definition of the Yiddish term, which has its origins in the Hebrew tachlit (meaning "goal" or "purpose"). In the documentaryTacheles: The Heart of the Matter (German: EndlichTacheles) by renowned Berlin filmmakers Jana Matthes and Andrea Schramm, people also speak plainly.

At 95, Mel Brooks Will Finally Deliver ‘History of the World: Part II’ – Jewish Exponent

| October 20, 2021

By Ron Kampeas You couldnt Torquemada it: Mel Brooks is making a sequel to History of the World: Part I, the 1981 revue that delighted and/or appalled Jews with, among other segments,a cheery musical take on the Spanish Inquisition.

‘The Future is Very Bright’: The Venture Capital Fund Investing in Israel’s Arab Founders – Algemeiner

| October 20, 2021

According to the Israel Health Ministry 2020 report on health care personnel, Arabs and Druze in Israel who make up about 20 percent of the countrys population were the recipients of 46 percent of new licenses issued, up from 18% in 2010 and 11% in 2000. For the Israeli venture capital fund Takwin, which invests only in startups led by at least one Arab founder, that trajectory is a good sign that Arabs will play a growing role in the countrys start-up ecosystem

Israels third option for dealing with Iran – Haaretz

| October 20, 2021

Benny Morris asserted in a recent articlethat Israel has two options both of which he admitted are awful for dealing with Irans nuclear threat. Either it destroys Irans nuclear facilities, which might well result in war with both Iran and its satellites, or it reconciles itself to a nuclear Iran, to living in its shadow and the risk of nuclear attack.

Israel’s ‘largest and most advanced aerial exercise ever’ enters its third day – Haaretz

| October 20, 2021

The Blue Flag multinational air exercise, which is bringing together the most advanced aircraft of seven nations' armed forces over Israeli skies, entered its third day on Tuesday.


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