admin | January 23, 2020
For a brief time, Albert Einstein was a winter bird, flying to the comfortable climes of Pasadena for three winters, 1931, 1932 and 1933. He stayed the second and third time at Caltechs Athenaeum at what is now known as the Einstein Suite
admin | January 23, 2020
It looks like the New York Times is reining in the Opinion sectionor at least wants to be seen as doing so.
admin | January 23, 2020
Recently, on a friends Facebook page, an Arab Supremacist Israel-hater wrote the following to me: I respect Judaism for what it is, a religion. European Zionism is Colonialist and racist.
admin | January 23, 2020
A prominent Middle East news correspondent got my attention a few years ago when, on a news panel, she articulated a thought I had pondered for years.
admin | January 23, 2020
JANUARY 21, 2020 The following essay appears as the preface to How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish, edited by the authors and published today by Restless Books. We have to believe in free will.
admin | January 20, 2020
All of the Ashkenazi Jews alive today can trace their roots to a group of about 330 people who lived 600 to 800 years ago. So says a new study in the journal Nature Communications. An international team of scientists sequenced the complete genomes of 128 healthy Ashkenazi Jews and compared each of those sequences with the others, as well as with with the DNA of 26 Flemish people from Belgium
admin | January 20, 2020
When Shekhiynah Larks runs an ethnic diversity training program for a Jewish community organization or school, theres one question that never fails to make people uncomfortable. What race are you?
admin | January 20, 2020
What can a Jewish cookbook from 1946 tell us about the 21st-century Jewish-American experience? Liza Schoenfein, the Forwards senior food writer, and Jane Ziegelman, a culinary historian, took our signature collection of Yiddish recipes off the shelf and found a direct line from the balaboostas of yore to the kitchens of today. When Regina Frishwasser sat down to write the Jewish American Cook Book, she had a particular reader a mind
admin | January 20, 2020
LOS ANGELES (JTA) Over the past century, Jews have endured what filmmaker Yaron Zilberman calls a trilogy of traumas: the Holocaust, the Yom Kippur War and the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The Israeli-American writer, director and producer has spent much of his career exploring these ordeals, and his latest film is no exception
admin | January 16, 2020
Dinner, Shabbat service, a Torah reading. In some ways, it was a normal weekend at Temple Beth Israel. But it was not.The congregation of TBI stepped out of its comfort zone to learn more about the customs and history of Sephardic Judaism, welcoming Rabbi Rifat Sonsino, a Sephardic Jew from Turkey, for its Scholar in Residence program
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