How a 100-year-old law changed American immigration policy till this day
(JTA) — In Might 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed laws, often known as the Johnson-Reed Act, that severely restricted the...
Growing up Jewish on the Upper West Side ‘when housing was a human right’
(New York Jewish Week) — When Jennifer Baum’s dad and mom purchased their three-bedroom, postwar condo on the Higher West...
Why Rabbi Shai Held says love is the cornerstone of Jewish belief and practice
(JTA) — Greater than twenty years in the past Rabbi Shai Held was lecturing to a category of fifth-year rabbinical...
Martin Greenfield, Auschwitz survivor and master tailor to American presidents, dies at 95
(New York Jewish Week) — Martin Greenfield was a prisoner in Auschwitz, working within the laundry, when he by chance...
How Israel’s Black Panthers radicalized its Mizrahi Jews, and changed the country
(JTA) — In Jerusalem’s quickly gentrifying Musrara neighborhood, there’s a avenue signal studying “Black Panthers Method.” Puzzled Individuals might surprise...
Comedian Richard Lewis, dark prince of Jewish neurosis, dies at 76
(JTA) — Comic Richard Lewis, who parlayed his neurotic Jewish character and self-deprecating humor right into a 50-year profession as a...
Why one Israeli security veteran hasn’t given up on a two-state solution
(JTA) — After I reached Nimrod Novik in Raanana, Israel and requested how he was feeling, he was blunt. “Unhealthy,”...
In dark times, is a dystopian Jewish novel just what we need?
(JTA) — Sooner or later throughout my studying of Zachary Solomon’s debut novel, “A Brutal Design,” I wanted to lookup...
Jewish Life Stories: The Nobelist who confirmed the Big Bang, the ‘Bagel Queen’ of Atlanta
This text can also be obtainable as a weekly publication, “Life Tales,” the place we keep in mind those that made an outsize...
Kill it or reform it? Jewish critics of DEI debate the future of campus diversity programs
(JTA) — As director of the Middle for Jewish Research on the College of Minnesota, Natan Paradise says he leads...