India’s Jews: The unknown community
Compared to their brothers in faith in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, very little is known about the Jewish community in India.
Three immediate reasons come to mind for this: the first...
Sephardic Jews to convene at global summit in Mexico
Sephardic Jews from more than 20 countries will gather at a biennial summit in Mexico City.
Coordinated by the Latin American Sephardic Federation, the Cumbre Erensya summit will bring together delegates from the Americas, Europe...
Jewish-Christian fellowship group increases aid to Arab Israelis during Ramadan
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is increasing food and clothing assistance to Arab Israelis during the Muslim holiday season of Ramadan.
The fellowship currently is distributing 9,500 food and clothing vouchers during Ramadan,...
New study claims Swiss rejected fewer Jews during Nazi era
According to historian Ruth Fivaz-Silbermann, who presented her 1,000-page postgraduate research project, ‘The flight to Switzerland’, at Geneva University last Saturday, 15,519 Jewish people tried to enter Switzerland via the Franco-Swiss border between 1939...
There is no Hebrew word for history
The question we must ask is why do we commemorate an event of 50 years ago, why is it important in a time and age when people want to forget? People have no patience...
Jewish immigrant’s closet on display at NYC’S Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sara Berman, a onetime Jewish immigrant in New York City, certainly had a unique personal style.
It wasn’t just her choice of clothes, which were all in shades of white, cream and neutrals. It was...
Hillel Kogan’s We Love Arabs explores the relationship between Arab and Jewish Israelis
Why do people have to take controversial issues so seriously? In a world where every political debate turns into a new reason to abuse barbiturates, it feels like it's time for everyone to just...
‘Closeness,’ story of caucasus jewish family, wins Cannes’s International Critics’ Award
“Closeness,” by 26-year-old Russian director Kantemir Balagov, set in his home city of Nalchik in 1998, has won the Cannes Festival’s International Critics’ Award on Saturday.
The plot is based on a story Balagov says...
Bridging denominations, this Jewish musician puts the ‘soul’ in music
In a garage-turned-recording studio, Sam Glaser spends his days — and many nights — producing albums for himself and others. On the road, however, this married father of three has an alter-ego, performing upwards...
This is the Jewish prayer Mark Zuckerberg sings to his daughter every night
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was the principal speaker at Harvard University's 366th Commencement Day on Thursday, and as he closed his speech, he shared the Jewish prayer he sings over his daughter...