A law professor worries Israel could become the next Hungary
(JTA) — Israel’s new governing coalition has been referred to as the “most right-wing” within the nation’s historical past. That’s...
Picking a new rabbi? A new novel about a church shows how
(JTA) — A few decade in the past, I served on my synagogue’s rabbinic search committee. Usually I'm allergic to...
Book bans, Ukraine and the end of Roe: The year 2022 in Jewish ideas
(JTA) — Jewish eras could be outlined by occasions (the autumn of the Second Temple, the Inquisition, the founding of...
7 Jewish highlights from the new Museum of Broadway
(New York Jewish Week) — There’s a reliably humorous Twitter account known as @JewWhoHasItAll, which imagines a universe the place practically...
How the Gilded Age (the era, not the TV show) created American Jewry
He didn't, nevertheless, break the Gilded Age for me — that's, the precise historic interval, roughly from the top of...
High Holiday prayers not working for you? Try remixing metaphors.
(JTA) — One of many centerpieces of the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgy is the “Avinu Malkeinu” prayer —...
Queen Elizabeth mattered. Civil religion explains why.
(JTA) — I'm a kind of individuals who gobble up movies and tv exhibits in regards to the royal household...
A news study explains why Starbucks can’t spell your Jewish name
(JTA) — My mother and father, youngsters of Japanese European Jewish immigrants, have been named Irving and Naomi. They named...
PBS airs an Upper West Sider’s hilarious documentary about grief and other stuff
(New York Jewish Week) — The “stuff” within the title of Judith Helfand’s new documentary, “Love & Stuff,” is supposed...
‘Quiet quitting’ sounds sort of … Jewish?
(JTA) — I hadn’t heard of “quiet quitting” till about 10 minutes in the past. Since then each main information...