For the second half of the academic year, we hit a record-breaking milestone of over 350 students enrolled in Israel Studies! Most of these students fall into the “ vast middle .” They aren’t here to ...
As I was on my way to yet another medical appointment, I had a call from one of my granddaughters. Like most of my grandchildren, she is a grown-up person with a career and a busy, independent life.
Join historian Marc Dollinger for a live conversation on his groundbreaking book “Black Power Jewish Politics”, with an afterword by Ilana Kaufman, the CEO of Jews of Color Initiative. Susannah ...
This heartfelt work is a candid, absorbing memoir that explores how faith is shaped not only by belief, but by resistance, inheritance, and choice. Rather than presenting a straight line toward ...
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch explains that the half coin reminds us that no individual is complete alone; only together do we form something whole. The Mishkan, the dwelling place of holiness, was ...
Melissa Manchester (February 15, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. During the 1970s and 1980s, ...
San Diego Jewish World wrote on Jan. 18 that “American-Israeli Rabbi Hanan Leberman of San Diego’s Tifereth Israel Synagogue ...
The Spingarn Medal is the highest honor awarded by the NAACP. Established in 1914 by Joel Elias Spingarn, it is a gold medal presented annually to an African American for “the highest or noblest ...
Terry Gross (February 14, 1951) is an American journalist who is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview-based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed ...
Our sages teach that there are four mitzvot on Purim. We gather to hear the story of Esther and how our people were saved. We give matanot la’evyonim to ensure that those in need can celebrate with ...
GREAT JEWISH CONDUCTORS is the title of the February 19 program of Treasures of the Jewish Music Collection. It will take place in the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family JCC. Thirteen of the ...
Bad Bunny said it best at the Super Bowl (Go Hawks!): THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE.