admin | April 20, 2024
(JTA) Yakira Galler, a first-year student at Barnard College, has had trouble sleeping.
admin | April 20, 2024
Maurice El Medioni, an Algerian-born pianist who fused Jewish and Arab musical traditions into a singular style he called Pianoriental, died on March 25 in Herzliya, on Israels central coast. He was 95. His death, at a nursing home, was confirmed by his manager, Yvonne Kahan
admin | April 20, 2024
WASHINGTON (JTA) Shortly after Hamas Oct.
admin | April 20, 2024
The Passover Seder is always a night of questions.
admin | April 20, 2024
My grandmothers kitchen was on the Upper East Side, but it tasted of Iraq. As Ama brushed butter onto sheets of phyllo dough, shed share stories of her girlhood in Baghdad.
admin | April 20, 2024
Chris and Calvin Marty, the owners behind Best Intentions, say they dont make a big deal that theyre Jewish. The brothers, who opened their Logan Square bar in 2015, grew up in Cambridge, Wisconsin, a village about 60 miles west of Milwaukee and with a population of about 1,600.
admin | April 20, 2024
Western Washington Universitys chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is set to host an Anti-Zionist Passover Seder on April 22. The pro-Palestinian groupannounced on Instagram: Were organizing our first JVP Passover seder
admin | April 20, 2024
If you watch the new Amazon Freevee show Dinner With the Parents, based on the British sitcom Friday Night Dinner, you will be delighted, by, well, all of it. But specifically, you will be delighted by Carol Kane as the most extra of Jewish grandmothers, who has a thick Eastern European accent, some of the best unexpected jokes, and who also brings some surprisingly meaningful moments of Jewishness to the fore like a scene in which she chants the Mourners Kaddish in the most impeccable way. According to Dan Bakkedahl, who plays the Langer family patriarch in the series, it was Kane who kept them honest and close to Jewish tradition.
admin | April 20, 2024
The FBI says it's on alert for threats to Jewish places of worship nationwide, as millions of Jewish Long Islanders prepare for Passover on Monday. FBI Director Christopher Wray spoke about the threats during a meeting with Secure Community Network, a Jewish community nonprofit safety and training organization. "We at the FBI are closely tracking these very real threats that have your communities on edge and were actively hitting back at the perpetrators full force, said Wray.
admin | April 20, 2024
Congress must meet the urgency of the moment and support its ally Israel, leadership from the Anti-Defamation League, AIPAC, American Jewish Committee, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organization and Jewish Federations of North America say in a letter to members of Congress on Friday morning written after the vote for the national security supplemental bills was set for Saturday. The bill is set to provide Israel with more than $26 billion of military and security aid
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