1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1593+ words) By Louis Keene August 6, 2026 LOS ANGELES – For thousands of years, the Jews have walked. Dispatched by God to the promised land of Canaan, Abraham walked. When the Israelites became a nation in the desert, they camped, kvetched, warred, and worshiped,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (329+ words) By Shira Li Bartov (JTA) — Over a dozen Torah scrolls have been stolen from a French synagogue in an attack the local rabbi called “antisemitic.” The burglary hit the Grand Synagogue of Levallois-Perret, a wealthy suburb of Paris, between Sunday…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (804+ words) Yair Rosenberg, who writes The Atlantic’s “Deep Shtetl” newsletter, was named to a new religion beat at The New York Times focused on Jewish American life. (Yair Rosenberg; Adam Jones/Wikimedia Commons) By Andrew Silow-Carroll June 29, 2026 (JTA) — The New York…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (400+ words) By Jacob Kornbluh May 18, 2026 There was no music at all — not even a cappella — despite the easing of traditional restrictions during the final days of the Omer before Shavuot. Mamdani was introduced by Phylisa Wisdom, executive director of the Office…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (544+ words) By Jacob Kornbluh March 29, 2026 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to attend a Passover Seder on Monday night at the City Winery in Manhattan, stepping into a decades-old cultural tradition that doubles as a symbolic test of his…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (688+ words) By Hannah Feuer April 1, 2026 It was one of those only-in-New-York moments: Roughly 60 Jews packed into a muggy subway car, grape juice sloshing with every bump, preparing to hold a Passover Seder on the ride from Union Square to the Bronx....

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (925+ words) (JTA) — It is not every day a sitting mayor celebrates his bar mitzvah. But last Saturday, as more than 700 people packed the pews at Temple Beth-El in Providence, Rhode Island, that’s exactly what unfolded. At the center of the ceremony…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (706+ words) Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the subject of Jenna Weissman Joselit’s biography, liked to do his work outdoors when weather allowed. Courtesy of The Collection of Hadassah K. Musher, New York By Jenna Weissman Joselit These days, public monuments don’t have an…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (548+ words) Is goy a slur, an antisemitic dogwhistle or simply a term for non-Jewish things like, as Lenny Bruce famously said, white bread and mayo? Image by Chris Norris-Leblanc By Mira Fox February 27, 2026 Suddenly the term goy is trending. X is…...