Arts & Life
Johanna Gruenhut melds Judaism and theater
Johanna Gruenhut’s Jewish identity has always been tightly interwoven with her art.
Even when she’s not directing a Jewish play, “Fingerprints of Judaism kind of...
You Should Know … Shani Shefler
Ten years ago, Shani Shefler served as a Bat Sherut in the Jewish community of Montreal. The Sherut Leumi program is a program for...
Book review: ‘Tunnels’ digs for complicated truth
By Sasha Rogelberg
“Tunnels”
Rutu Modan
Drawn & Quarterly
In graphic novelist Rutu Modan’s most recent work “Tunnels,” published on Nov. 2 by Drawn & Quarterly, archaeologist Nili...
Opinion
Parshat Yitro: What did we hear at Sinai?
By Rabbi James R. Michaels
Yitro contains the dramatic description of the revelation of the Torah at Mount Sinai. The words used to describe the...
Opinion | Schools must coexist with COVID
By Dan Schnur
I am tired of COVID-19. I know you are too. But here we are, dealing with a fourth wave of coronavirus.
At least...
Challenges to Israel’s government of change
Israel’s government of change is navigating a serious challenge to its fragile coalition. Since the state’s founding, Israel has tried to settle its nomadic...
Nation and World
This young US immigrant in Jerusalem is telling Israel’s story to the world
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Tamar Schwarzbard is grateful for getting to tell Israel’s story to the world every day—not through lectures or opinion columns, but via...
Texas hostage crisis was a watershed moment in the livestreaming of American synagogues
By Shira Hanau and Philissa Cramer
For most of the Shabbat services streamed from Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, over the course of the...
‘We were terrified’: Texas rabbi says he threw a chair at synagogue gunman to...
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker has publicly described for the first time the moment he and two other hostages escaped a gunman in his synagogue in...
Top Picks
- The Etymology of Hate
Every word that we speak carries its own history. A tale of travel, a silly story or heavy hatred in its every syllable. Ethnophaulisms, or ...
- School nurses reflect on nearly two years of COVID
When Jane Brophy, head nurse at Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital, gets home from work, she puts down her bag, says ...
- You Should Know … Shani Shefler
Ten years ago, Shani Shefler served as a Bat Sherut in the Jewish community of Montreal. The Sherut Leumi program is a program for young ...
- Johanna Gruenhut melds Judaism and theater
Johanna Gruenhut’s Jewish identity has always been tightly interwoven with her art. Even when she’s not directing a Jewish play, “Fingerprints of Judaism kind of find ...
- Character actor Nehemiah Persoff looks back at 102 years
By Tom Tugend When actor, painter and writer Nehemiah Persoff, at times dubbed “the last survivor of Hollywood’s golden age,” was a 3 year old growing ...
Food & Dining
Br-oasted chicken
By Keri White
There’s nothing like a roast chicken. It’s comfort food, it’s elegant, it’s hearty but not heavy and it provides far beyond one...
Do-it-yourself grain bowls
By Linda Morel
Grain bowls are the rage in restaurant dining. They are served anywhere from salad bars and cafes to fine restaurants.
But because they...
Fassoulia with ground beef: A taste of the Middle East
By Jessica Grann
I am always looking for simple weekday meals that are nourishing and don’t take a lot of time to cook or to...
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