A novel of Sephardic life revives the Jewish family saga
(JTA) — The very first Jewish e book was a multigenerational Jewish household saga. However whereas the Bible went on...
What Marc Maron’s comedy special taught me about laughter and Tisha B’Av
(JTA) — I’ve been instructing a digital class on Jewish humor via our accomplice website, My Jewish Studying. I share...
Journalist and scholar Aharon Ariel, 97, veteran of Israel’s war of independence and ‘walking encyclopedia’
(JTA) — In Might 1948, a decommissioned U.S. Navy ship, the Marine Carp, was carrying passengers from New York to...
Marlena Spieler, globetrotting writer of Jewish cookbooks, dies at 74
(JTA) — In an essay she wrote in June, Marlena Spieler reminisced about her grandfather’s neighborhood in San Francisco in...
A legal scholar sizes up the religious argument against abortion bans
(JTA) — The abortion debate is commonly portrayed as a conflict between non secular beliefs on the pro-life aspect and...
Rabbi David Wolpe, stepping down from a top pulpit, wants you to stop arguing and start listening
(JTA) — David Wolpe has been known as one of the crucial quoted rabbis in america, and never all the...
In their classroom, Torah is a three-ring circus — by design
(JTA) — For a quick and barely embarrassing interval in my teenagers, I wished to run away with the circus....
A new book made me appreciate Jewish Sunday schools — and the volunteer women who have powered them
(JTA) — As a child I went to Sunday college at our Reform synagogue. I didn’t hate it as a...
The Israeli origins of Amitai Etzioni’s big ideas about community
(JTA) — “Though I used to be born in Germany, my childhood have been spent within the early, idealistic days...
The hora, the hora! How Jewish wedding music got that way
(JTA) — When my spouse and I had been planning our marriage ceremony, we thought it is likely to be...