Michele Alperin / JointMedia News Service
ARTICLES BY: Michele Alperin / JointMedia News Service
Mother’s Day Performer Blends Israeli Independence and the Jewish Side of Verdi
This Mother's Day, the music of opera singer Sharon Azrieli Perez will integrate the varied threads that have made up the fabric of her...
A Tale of Mutual Empathy: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
In Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, an exhibition aptly opening on Martin Luther King Day will highlight a historical moment of mutual respect and...
George Washington’s Jewish Correspondence
In a letter that will go on display before Independence Day, George Washington conveys his commitment to one of America's founding principles while...
Cantorial “Ambassadors” Recognize the New Germany
Even as Germany has edged closer to being the icon of high culture it once was, echoes of the Holocaust still affect its foreign...
For U.S. Russian Jewry, An Exercise in Identity
A gap remains between young Russian Jews and the larger American Jewish community, even as organizations like Limmud FSU and others work to build bridges...
America’s First Female Rabbi: 40 Years Later
Rabbi Sally Priesand, America's first seminary-ordained female rabbi, decided at age 16 to pursue her calling. "I always wanted to be a teacher of whatever was...
A World Without Holocaust Survivors
As the number of Holocaust survivors able to give direct testimony about their horrific experiences during World War II is dropping precipitously, the Jewish community...
Bat/Bar Mitzvahs: More Than Just Collecting Checks From Family Friends
At age 12, Sally Gottesman—now a not-for-profit consultant, largely in the Jewish community—was attuned to feminism in ways that other girls at her...
From Dolphins to Shimon Peres
Israeli filmmaker Dani Menkin has a nose for the unusual. His 2005 documentary "39 Pounds of Love" grew out of a chance meeting in a...
The Evolution of the Bat Mitzvah
In the 90 years since Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan's oldest daughter, Judith, became the first American girl to mark her Jewish coming-of-age in a...
