admin | November 27, 2021
In a passage of his new book The Will to See, a collection of dispatches and insights garnered from his travels in war zones around the world, the French Jewish philosopher Bernard-Henri Lvy reflects on the challenges of being an internationalist in a world that has increasingly turned inwards upon itself.
admin | November 27, 2021
For 10 years, Polish tour guide Alicja Ziolo led groups around her native Krakow, where so-called Lucky Jew figurines and portraits of money-holding Jews are a souvenir of choice. In my fathers home, he has a little painting of a Jew counting money, Ziolo told The Times of Israel. He believes it is supposed to bring luck and prosperity to his household.
admin | November 27, 2021
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) Fany Gerson, 45, has always loved sweets.
admin | November 27, 2021
I try to keep up on official Jewish claims about the oneness of Judaism and Zionism, and here is an important statement on that score from last May that I just saw. Days after Israels war with Gaza sparked unprecedented outrage in the west, Rabbi Wendi Geffen gave a sermon to her Reform congregation in suburban Chicago about the new antisemitism in which she said that anti-Zionist Jews are Jews in name only who must be kept out of the Jewish tent. There are boundaries to that tent
admin | November 27, 2021
The Old City of Jerusalem is both magical and cursed at the same time. It is filled with so much hope, yet so much suffering
admin | November 27, 2021
Avia Yosef, 17, originally joined the volleyball team during her freshman year at Venice High School because she thought it would be a fun extracurricular activity that would teach her teamwork and leadership. Now a senior, its turned out to be so much more. Shes part of a team that defeated Palisades Charter High School, which previously had a winning streak of 130 consecutive Western League victories
admin | November 27, 2021
In June, I went to the Western Wall for the bar mitzvah of a cousin from Ohio who was studying in Jerusalem. It was my first visit to the Wall since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The bar mitzvah was probably a more meaningful rite of passage for the bar mitzvah boy because he decided to become a bar mitzvah in his early 20s, rather than at 13
admin | November 3, 2021
Zebulon Simantov, the last known Jew to leave Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover in August, is demanding $10 million in order to come to Israel, according to the Jewish Chronicle. Simantov was extracted from Afghanistan in a rescue operation organized by an Israeli humanitarian contractor named Moti Kahana in September.
admin | November 3, 2021
In 2006, David Marchese, Salon's then-associate music editor, wrote an impassioned lamentation on the decline of the Cool Jew. Gone were the days of James Caan heading up a powerful crime family, Richard Dreyfuss taking on a killer shark, and Dustin Hoffman seducing a mother-daughter duo. In their places stood Jerry Seinfeld, Seth Rogen, and Adam Sandler, who were deep trenches of playing schmucks and schlubs.
admin | November 3, 2021
Communities of Jews live in the Gulf states, strengthening their Jewish identity together in the Arab majority countries - and growing larger.
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