Stephen Whitfield / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Stephen Whitfield / JNS.org
Voicing the Meaning of “The Chanukah Song”
How's this for international influence? In 2004 a seminar was offered on American Jewish culture at the University of Munich; the students were required to...
Where Jazz Met Kol Nidre
In 1927, The Jazz Singer ushered out the era of silent cinema with Jack Robin's emotional rendition of Kol Nidre. The film's profound ...
An Israeli Oasis in a South Boston Garage
Long a bastion of working-class Irish Americans, hometown of organized crime mobster James "Whitey" Bulger and several of his cronies, and known for taverns and...
Marc Chagall’s Gift: “White Crucifixion”
The scheduling of Passover and Easter at close to the same moment on the calendar can remind Jews of the historic entanglement of the...
The Legacy of Julius Rosenwald and the Decline of Sears, an American Giant
At the very end of December, 2011, when the Sears Holding Company announced that up to 120 of its stores (both Sears Roebuck and...
