admin | September 16, 2022
As a kid in a small Jewish community in the northern Italian city of Milan, Rabbi Michael Beyo was steeped in Sephardi traditions. His father was born in Turkey, the country where his family had lived for 500 years after being expelled from Spain during the Inquisition
admin | September 16, 2022
My grandson Lucas can really put the terrible in the terrible twos. Like most toddlers, hes a delight, except when hes not. Hell hurl berries from his high chair like an Olympic shot putter, smear sour cream on his placemat like a tiny Jackson Pollock, and sometimes, when he doesnt get what he wants, he will scream loud and louder, high and higher, until only bats and dolphins can hear him.
admin | July 28, 2022
Like most 23-year-olds, Tova Ricardo has an Instagram account. Yet she never posts pictures of herself partying, drinking or lounging on the beach. Instead, she posts poetic declarations of pride in her Judaism.
admin | July 28, 2022
Top: Beanie Feldstein and the company of "Funny Girl." (Photo by Matthew Murphy) Bottom: Adam Godley, Simon Russell Beale, and Adrian Lester in "The Lehman Trilogy." (Photo by Julieta Cervantes) Just 24 hours after Beanie Feldstein announced her departure from Funny Girl, American Jewish theatremakers Emma Jude Harris and Gabrielle Hoyt met in person for the first time. 3,000 words, 10 oat milk lattes, and one last-minute Broadway trip later, their resultant dialogue touches on questions of Jewish identity, race, gender, American stories abroad, and the power of Barbra
admin | July 25, 2022
It was February 25th, the day after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Yevgeny and Anastasia Dubov, a Moscow couple in their early 20s, were in a panic. Recently married, both had just begun wellpaid positions in graphic design. But they had taken leadership roles as student activists in the public demonstrations in support of Alexei Navalny, champion of the opposition in Russia and nemesis of Vladimir Putin
admin | July 25, 2022
Prime Minister Yair Lapid, on Thursday, dispatched his national security advisor Eyal Hulata to Moscow to begin discussions with his Russian counterpart over the recommendation to end Jewish Agency operations in that country. But Lapid intends to tackle the problem from more angles and after consultations held with officials, had decided that a delegation from his office, the ministries of justice, immigration and absorption, and the foreign ministry, will head to Russia early next week.
admin | July 25, 2022
The TAKE with Rick Klein The focus on the Trump and never-Trump binary choice misses the mark when it comes to describing the state of the Republican Party -- both in describing its recent past and predicting its medium-term future. The summer burst of Jan. 6 hearings in the House, coupled with a developing series of speeches by ambitious Republicans -- including what's expected at competing events in Washington this week -- reveal at least three discrete segments of the GOP
admin | July 14, 2022
Former State Department antisemitism envoy Elan Carr is on a mission to increase American philosemitism. By Mike Wagenheim, JNS.org May is over. Did you know it was Jewish American Heritage Month?
admin | July 14, 2022
Joc Pederson, the San Francisco Giants outfielder and local Jewish boy, made the Major League Baseball All-Star game roster this week.
admin | July 14, 2022
Where does your drinking water come from? Berkeley native and self-described water warrior Nina Gordon-Kirsch wants you to know. This month, Gordon-Kirsch, 33, is walking roughly 200 miles from her home in Oakland to the headwaters of the Mokelumne River, the source of drinking water for most of the East Bay.
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