Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a time-honored tradition for American Jews

Like many minority groups, Jews have always created ways of adapting to the societies in which they live, but whose culture they do not totally share. And one thing that means is a collection of ...

For Jewish communities, Chinese food is more than a Christmas tradition – they’re also walking the wok

Jewish and Chinese communities in Canada, bound by a sense of otherness and a common map of exclusion, have found ways to ...

Festival of lights strengthens Jewish bonds, educates Myrtle Beach on Hanukkah

In a time of heightened awareness and vigilance, the Jewish community in Myrtle Beach is finding strength and unity through ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

How the global Hillel movement connects Jewish communities across continents

Cleaning up beaches near Rio de Janeiro and learning about Jewish environmental values. Connecting with Jewish study abroad students in London. Discovering the richness and plurality of Jewish ...
J. The Jewish News of Northern CaliforniaOpinion

Jewish universalism or Jewish particularism? It’s a false choice

Yet this framing itself is mistaken. God did not ask the Jewish people to choose between faithfulness and responsibility, ...
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Mir Castle to host exhibition about Jewish culture and traditions

GRODNO, 11 March (BelTA) - Traditional ritual clothes, paintings, objects and photos telling about national traditions from the Museum of History and Culture of the Jews of Belarus, of the Mir Castle ...
The Forward

For this historian, anti-Zionism is part of a hallowed Jewish tradition

In 1935, the leftist magazine The New Masses published a scathing profile of the militant Zionist Vladimir Jabotinsky, blasting his visions of empire in Palestine and calling him a “Jewish Hitler.” ...
Jewish Journal

Worldly Wisdom and the Jewish Tradition of Translation

A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a National Jewish Book Award shows, such a work is not only real, it testifies to ...

The Jewish Museum’s muddled reinstallation

Though ambitious and engaging, the New York institution’s reorganized collections galleries struggle to offer a coherent ...
Sacramento State University

Addressing Antisemitism at Sac State

The word antisemitism means prejudice against or hatred towards Jewish individuals, Jews as a people, Jewish ethnicity, culture, institutions, and/or religion/religious teachings. In addition, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Jewish Food Is Making a Comeback in Poland

It’s late morning in Warsaw, and we pick a place—nothing special—to have breakfast. “Look,” I say to my husband and children, quickly scanning the menu, making my way through various preparations of ...