Jamie Margolin is a cofounder of the youth-led climate action group Zero Hour. She is the author of Youth to
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Q&A with Rachel Binstock, organizer with Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action, about spiritual adaptation to climate crisis. ...
To properly bless the food you're eating, you have to know how it was grown—whether it came from a tree or the land or a vine. And that's really powerful to me because increasingly we're more disconnected from our food. ...
With more than 56 thousand followers on Instagram alone, and a blog and podcast to boot, Kristy Drutman (@browngirl_green) interviews
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Groundswell is a solutions-based series of Q&As highlighting 10 grassroots Jewish changemakers confronting the climate crisis, coinciding with COP26 in Glasgow. ...
It takes a lot for me to trust that someone knows about, or cares about, the survival of my people. And I need to hear it, and I need to hear it several times, in order to quell the fear that I have inside of me that says that they ...
Here is a short introductory guide to what is unfolding, with the acknowledgment that in a situation as fraught and complex as this one, any explainer will necessarily be incomplete. ...
Ilene Prusher is an award-winning journalist and novelist who covered Israel from the ground for 15 years for The Christian ...
Chef Michael Twitty—a writer, culinary historian, cook and Hebrew school teacher—is an African American Jew (he converted at age 22) who uses his culinary prowess to explore the threads of his identity. In 2013, he became a well-known presence in culinary circles when he wrote an open letter to celebrity ...
In 2010, Rob Densen’s wife was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. The doctors gave her 36 weeks to live, but she lived for 40 months. “She had a genetic mutation for which there was a targeted therapy,” says Densen. “We got that time because 10 or 15 year ...
In the wake of Charlottesville and the moral equivalency debate spawned by President Donald Trump’s comments, Noah Rothman has argued that, while it's incumbent upon the right to get its house in order and expel white supremacists from its coalition, the left would do well to examine violent tendencies within ...
The Ottomans ruled what is now Israel for 400 years, and during that time they made some iconic contributions to the man-made landscape. Sultan Suleiman I (a.k.a. Suleiman the Magnificent) completed the current walls of Jerusalem’s Old City in 1541. The Jaffa Clocktower, finished in 1903, was built to celebrate ...