Spirituality/Tradition
30 Years After Fleeing Israel and Converting to Islam, Woman Returns Home
30 years ago, a Jewish Israeli woman fell in love with a Palestinian man, converted to Islam and moved to the Palestinian town of...
A Neglected Anniversary
Libya is once again in the news. It's been a while, since the media largely lost interest following Muammar el-Qaddafi's ouster and assassination. The North African nation just held its first election. What emerges will...
Roseanne Barr: I’m a Fat Old Jew
Roseanne Barr took to Twitter this week to announce that she's a "fat old Jew". The former television star posted a photo of herself on the social media site, with the words "fat old Jew"...
Kat Graham Wants Mitzvah Tank Tour Bus
Actress and singer Katerina Graham took to Instagram to proclaim her next tour bus will be the Mitzvah Tank. Graham, who speaks some Hebrew and whose mother is Jewish, posted a picture on the social photo...
Deadly Russian Floods Spring JDC Into Action
In the wake of severe floods in Russia's Krasnodar Region near the Black Sea...
Jewish At-Risk Teens Repair Polish Cemeteries
Located in what is currently western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland, and north-eastern Romania - the provinces...
Amy Winehouse’s Family to Mark One Year Anniversary of Death in Jewish Tradition
In an interview with Hello! Magazine in the UK, Amy Winehouse's mother reveals that she...
Nina Weiner: Godmother to Thousands of Israeli Students
Nina Avidar Weiner takes a personal interest in the lives of many of the 600...
Jewish Organizations, Others Must Stop Interfering With Holocaust Survivors’ Rights
The JTA recently published an op-ed by Menachem Rosensaft which gratuitously offers an "alternative" to...
30 Years After Fleeing Israel and Converting to Islam, Woman Returns Home
30 years ago, a Jewish Israeli woman fell in love with a Palestinian man, converted to Islam and moved to the Palestinian town of Tulkarm...
A Neglected Anniversary
Libya is once again in the news. It's been a while, since the media largely lost interest following Muammar el-Qaddafi's ouster and assassination. The North African...
Roseanne Barr: I’m a Fat Old Jew
Roseanne Barr took to Twitter this week to announce that she's a "fat old Jew". The former television star posted a photo of herself on...
Kat Graham Wants Mitzvah Tank Tour Bus
Actress and singer Katerina Graham took to Instagram to proclaim her next tour bus will be the Mitzvah Tank. Graham, who speaks some Hebrew and whose...
Deadly Russian Floods Spring JDC Into Action
In the wake of severe floods in Russia's Krasnodar Region near the Black Sea last weekend, more than 170 people were killed, over...
Jewish At-Risk Teens Repair Polish Cemeteries
Located in what is currently western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland, and north-eastern Romania - the provinces that were once known as Galicia and Bukovina and were...
Amy Winehouse’s Family to Mark One Year Anniversary of Death in Jewish Tradition
In an interview with Hello! Magazine in the UK, Amy Winehouse's mother reveals that she still wakes up in tears, almost one year after the...
Nina Weiner: Godmother to Thousands of Israeli Students
Nina Avidar Weiner takes a personal interest in the lives of many of the 600 students that the ISEF Foundation (International Sephardic Education Foundation) provides university...
Jewish Organizations, Others Must Stop Interfering With Holocaust Survivors’ Rights
The JTA recently published an op-ed by Menachem Rosensaft which gratuitously offers an "alternative" to the legislation that Holocaust survivors and children and grandchildren of...
Donald Sanford, American-Israeli Runner Qualifies Last Minute for London 2012 (VIDEO)
25 year old American Israeli athlete Donald Sanford secured his spot in the Israeli delegation for the upcoming Summer Olympic Games, set to kick off...
Itsu Kaszirer 1922-2012
My father-in-law of 24 years, Itsu Kaszirer, died on the second of Tammuz at the age of 90, in Antwerp. He was a remarkable man...
Young Judaea Goes Solo, Branching out From Hadassah
Young Judaea will become an independent, not-for-profit entity in the culmination of a yearlong process to separate the 103-year-old Zionist youth movement from its sponsor,...
Orthodox Rabbi May be First ALS Patient Cured by Israeli Drug
Haredi leader Rabbi Refoel Shmulevitz, a victim of the motor neuron disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), may be the first known patient cured of ALS,...
Murder Victim’s Family Urges Exodus for Yemen’s Jews
The family of Aharon Joseph Zindani, a Yemenite Jew who was murdered in his native country in May, is urging Yemen's remaining Jews to emigrate to...
