By MARTIN ZEILIG When asked what it is about Mesopotamia that captures her imagination, Dr. Tina Greenfield has a ready response—one that is self-evident to anyone...
By MYRON LOVE When I was growing up, I first discovered many of the classics of Western literature through the pages of the Classic comic book...
By BERNIE BELLAN Given the subject matter of Beatty Cohan’s column elsewhere on this site – online dating, I thought it appropriate to write about a...
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Last June we had a story about Marcus Spiegel, a young writer originally from Winnipeg whose parents are Esther and Jeff Spiegel, and whose in-laws are...
(JTA) – When students at Connecticut College learned that their president had been planning to attend a fundraiser at a historically racist and antisemitic golf club,...
This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect...
(New York Jewish Week) — As they say in the mameloshn (mother tongue), “Dos Yidish lid iz umetum.” In other words, “Yiddish song is in the...
BERLIN (JTA) — A plan to get Germany’s non-Orthodox rabbinical schools back on track after nearly a year of tumult has hit a snag: the country’s...
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(JTA) — My mother always loved to cook and bake, but I was never welcome in the kitchen. Not every night before dinner, not before Shabbat...
(JTA) — Albania’s prime minister announced plans to open a museum in Tirana dedicated to the stories of its citizens who saved Jews during the Holocaust. ...
(JTA) — In 1996, Jordan Gorfinkel launched two series of comics that get at the two sides to his personality and career. One was “Birds of...
(New York Jewish Week) — Are we humans all parts of a meticulously crafted machine? Or are we independent beings, chaotically disrupting one another’s trajectories through time...
(JTA) — The fifth edition of the World Baseball Classic is just days away, as players and fans across the globe prepare for two weeks of...
(JTA) — In a scene that will soon stream on Hulu, a group of early Christian bishops gathers to set a promotion strategy for their newish...