Michele Alperin / JointMedia News Service
ARTICLES BY: Michele Alperin / JointMedia News Service
Garden State and Jewish State Share Table on Food Innovation
JNS.org - Food innovation is the next course in the storied US-Israel partnership. Rutgers University’s Food Innovation Center and Tel-Hai College in Israel’s northern Galilee region recently...
‘Jewish Food Movement’ Comes of Age
JNS.org - In December 2007, leaders of the Hazon nonprofit drafted seven-year goals for what they coined as the "Jewish Food Movement," which has since been characterized by...
Museum of History of Polish Jews in Warsaw to Open Core Exhibit
JNS.org- Given that half of the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust came from Poland, many descendants of Polish Jews may be...
How DNA Testing Can Reveal Jewish Ancestry and Bolster the Zionist Narrative
JNS.org - When Noah Slepkov started using online genealogical tools to build a family tree, little did he know that his personal exploration might...
Turner Classic Movies Showcases ‘Broad Sweep’ of the Jewish Experience on Film
JNS.org - Since 2006, the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable and satellite TV network has hosted "The Projected Image," a month-long showcase examining how...
Infusing Meaning Into the Passover Seder
JNS.org - As the intersection of family, Jewish memory, and the passions of contemporary politics and society, the Passover seder is said to be...
Retreat Gives Young Artists New Platform to Engage With Jewish Ideas
JNS.org - Many young Jewish artists struggle to define who they are personally, artistically, and religiously. Against the backdrop of that struggle, the recent...
‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ Approaching 50th Anniversary, is Strong as Ever
JNS.org - Worldwide performances of "Fiddler on the Roof" attest to its cultural power, as it evokes the yearning for tradition in a changing world....
Kosherfest 2013 High on Healthy Foods
JNS.org - The growing demand for natural, organic, vegetarian, fiber, and gluten-free alternatives among kosher consumers was apparent at Kosherfest 2013, the annual trade...
Jews in the Former Soviet Union Embrace Jewish Identity
JNS.org - In a complex journey that can start as simply as children asking their parents what their family name means, younger Jews...
Large Questions Face Future of Iraqi Jewish Archive
JNS.org - A tip in May 2003 about a 7th-century Talmud volume in the basement of the Iraqi intelligence ministry (Mukhabarat) led a...
Orthodox Jewish Women Ordained as First Class of a ‘Different Kind of Leader’
JNS.org - On the surface, Sunday's ordination ceremony for the first three graduates of Bronx, NY-based Yeshivat Maharat—the first institution to train Orthodox women as spiritual...
Holocaust Seder a New ‘Ritual of Remembrance and Redemption’
WHIPPANY, NJ—The imperative to remember the Holocaust is motivating new forms of Holocaust education, with fewer survivors alive to tell the tale themselves. With that...
Orthodox Jewish Women Share Tricks of the Entrepreneurial Trade at Inaugural Conference
Chaya Appel-Fishman hatched the idea for a network of Jewish businesswomen at age 16, when she rented a college campus and created a conglomerate of...
