The Catskills meet Mount Sinai at a night of Jewish comedy
(JTA) — Again in 2000, Spike Lee made a live performance movie starring 4 of the most well-liked Black comics...
Can Jews agree to disagree? Leaders gather in New York in search of ‘viewpoint diversity.’
(JTA) — Right here’s a narrative I not too long ago shared on Fb: I used to be paddling my...
When a Jewish group fought antisemitism with radio shows and comic books
(JTA) — Half a century earlier than the Web was invented, an American Jewish group was asking how new media...
How I learned to stop kvetching and love the Yiddish revival
AMHERST, Massachusetts (JTA) — Josh Dolgin, the Canadian rapper and klezmer musician who performs as Socalled, was nearing the top...
How the Lanner case still haunts American Jewry
(JTA) — It’s been over 20 years since my predecessor as editor of the New York Jewish Week, Gary Rosenblatt,...
Baruch Lanner, American rabbi convicted of sex abuse, is given residency status in Israel
(New York Jewish Week) — Baruch Lanner, the American rabbi who served practically three years in jail for sexually assaulting...
Religion for non-believers: It’s a Jewish thing
(JTA) — There's an previous joke in regards to the Jewish atheist who is happy to satisfy the Nice Heretic...
Judge orders Yeshiva University to recognize LGBTQ organization
(New York Jewish Week) — The New York County Supreme Courtroom dominated that Yeshiva College should acknowledge a campus LGBTQ...
An app that identifies trees and flowers is changing my life
(JTA) — I've a linden tree in my entrance yard. Out again we've got a powerful pin oak that should...
The ‘queer, disabled’ Zionist who challenged the conventions of Israel’s founders
(JTA) — It’s exhausting to discover a poster selling early Twentieth-century Zionism that doesn’t depict a tanned, chiseled man toting...