Posts Tagged: Jewish culture
Contemporary Jewish Artists Gather for Global Networking Retreat
JNS.org - A global network of young contemporary Jewish artists held its annual retreat, aiming to provide the artists with greater exposure and an...
Aliyah — If Not Now, When?
More than 5,000 Jewish immigrants are expected to arrive in Israel from France in 2014, and more than 1,000 olim arrived from the U.S., France...
What Does it Mean to Be Jewish?
As recent surveys reveal a disturbingly large number of American Jews—millions, in fact—who feel disconnected from their Jewish identity, allow me to share what being...
One Strike and You’re Out?
The news over the last few weeks of the sockpuppet scandal of Rabbi Michael Broyde is disturbing, but not for the reasons you might imagine....
The Yiddish Language’s Literal and Figurative Rescuer
AMHERST, MA—Aaron Lansky's decades-long mission is typified by an "emergency" call he once received on a wintry night, summoning him to New York to rescue thousands...
Explaining the ‘Maccabees’ Moniker for Jewish Athletics
Jewish athletes from around the world gather every four years in Israel for the Olympic-style Maccabiah Games, not to mention the annual JCC Maccabi Youth...
Jaffa Road: Where the Light Gets In (INTERVIEW)
Music lovers better pack their bags because they're in for a sonic world tour when global tour de force and Juno nominees Jaffa Road release...
Former Israeli Chief Rabbi Recalls Memorable Visits With Lubavitcher Rebbe
Forty-five hundred rabbinic emissaries, or "shluchim of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement gathered in New York City on Nov. 11 to celebrate their current accomplishments in Jewish outreach...
Refusenik’s Translated Memoir Offers Rare Glimpse Into Soviet Oppression
"With neither family nor human warmth, it was an existence lived against the grain of human nature." That is how Yosef Mendelevich remembers the deprivations of...
Reinterpreting Bible Scenes Illuminates New Meanings
It is one of the most famous scenes in the Bible. Abraham is sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat...
Jesus Married? Not Surprising For a Dedicated Jew
Whether authenticated or not there is nothing totally new in the "discovery" by a Harvard scholar of a fourth- century papyrus fragment indicating that Jesus was...
Jewish Fiction Finds a New Home on the Internet
Speaking over lively klezmer music in a Krakow café, Canadian author and freelance journalist Menachem Kaiser wonders if Jewish readers are comfortable with the term...
The Possession, Drawing on Jewish Sources, is Hollywood’s Kabbalistic Version of The Exorcist (VIDEO)
By Atara Arbesfeld and Ezriel Gelbfish A Dybbuk is a mystical spirit that possesses the body of a living person according to Jewish folklore, and is...
Blurry Glasses Reveal Hate of Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Recently, some articles have come out reporting that some Hareidi or "Ultra-Orthodox" Jews in Mea Shearim, the most religious area of Jerusalem, have started...
