admin | January 30, 2022
IN 2013, I went to a sumptuous exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, entitled Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 19091929. As I wandered through the galleries, luxuriating in the exquisite costumes and set designs, names like Lon Bakst, Ida Rubinstein, and Ren Blum triggered my Jewish historians sixth sense.
admin | January 24, 2022
JNS.org To be a Jew today means your life will be defined by collective moments of agony and of pride. Jewish people may be admired by some for our resilience, our dignity, our courage and our tenacity to persevere in the face of a history of relentless hatred, but we are still reviled by others.
admin | January 24, 2022
What questions do you have about Judaism?Submit them online, or fill out the form below. By Hyphen Parent My top suggestion is to reach out to your local rabbi and ask for more information about conversion
admin | January 24, 2022
In an era in which Hollywood obsesses on matters of representation and diversity, and insists on casting women, Blacks, Hispanics and Asians for every possible role, and is in general walking on eggshells in an attempt not to rub up against any minority its not surprising that, of all people, it was a Jewish woman from Israel who managed to cause the latest commotion. Golda Meir most certainly would not have imagined that over 40 years after her death, her nose would manage to get Jews all riled up and induce filmmakers to quarrel so earnestly among themselves.
admin | January 24, 2022
A new initiative to recover, study and elevate the voices and experiences of Jews of Color in the United States is launching at the University of Colorado Boulder with the support of a three-year, $250,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. Jews of Color: Histories and Futures is spearheaded by Samira K. Mehta, assistant professor of Jewish Studies and women and gender studies at the university.
admin | January 14, 2022
Lisa Schwartz thinks she knows who is responsible for the shout that New Jersey State Assemblyman Gordon Johnson of Engelwood (D.-37) has called a disturbing incident of antisemitic bias. The shout was addressed to Congressman Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ Dist. 5) in September, as he was concluding a visit to businesses in Glen Rock to promote the federal infrastructure bill
admin | January 14, 2022
Halakha is a wondrous thing.
admin | January 14, 2022
Utah tech entrepreneur Dave Bateman resigned from the Entrata board last week just hours after sending an antisemitic email to business leaders and government officials claiming that Jews are behind a sadistic effort to euthanize the American people. In the email, which was first reported by Salt Lake Citys Fox 13, Bateman claimed that the pandemic and systematic extermination of billions of people will pave the way for the Jews to consolidate all the countries in the world under a single flag with totalitarian rule.
admin | January 14, 2022
Rabbi Sherre Hirsh, Founder of Maven Maven is a new platform that has the unique purpose of helping bring Jewish wisdom to the world. I caught up with Founder Rabbi Sherre Hirsch to find out more.
admin | January 14, 2022
After the Washington Post released the first complete accounting of members of Congress who owned enslaved people, the Forward ran all nine Jews who entered Congress before the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, through the database.
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