Vladimir Putin has earned his reputation as a dictator, but he has often behaved warmly toward Jews. ...
Anyone who spent much time in Israel before the last few years has probably heard this trope from multiple Israelis: “Everything here is crazy! Why can’t we live in a normal country?” ...
A community of observant Orthodox Jews in Uganda, with no genetic link to Israel, wants to make Aliyah. ...
Nothing dampens the spirit of artist Aribert (Ari) Munzner, not even the 1,000 gallons of water that Minneapolis firefighters employed to extinguish the blaze that wrecked his art studio. ...
Long story short: my father, Jack, controlled the money in my parents’ marriage. All of it. ...
When the state of Israel turned 30 in 1978, its supporters in Hollywood threw a star-studded party. What changed? ...
“Love Me Kosher,” currently on exhibition at the Jewish Museum Vienna, seeks to contend that love, sex and relationships are central to and inseparable from Judaism. ...
Almost a half-century before Donald Trump signed on to the fraudulent notion that President Barack Obama’s American citizenship and constitutional legitimacy were suspect, Robert Welch (1899-1985) reached an equally alarming conclusion about the president of his day, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower. ...
The rabbinic tradition speaks of a Jerusalem above and a Jerusalem below. ...
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In many Jewish homes, lighting candles at dusk marks a shift to sacred time, the moment when the Sabbath starts—or a holiday, a yahrzeit. ...
More often than not, the word “Talmudic” isn’t about the Talmud. ...