Atlanta Emerges as the Jewish-Foodie Capital of the South
When Liz Mennen, a Manhattan transplant, arrived in Atlanta at age 22, she searched everywhere for a staple of her youth: the knish. But the dough-encrusted, potato-filled Jewish pastry was nowhere to be found,...
Book Details 200 Places Around the World of Jewish Interest
The Complete Jewish Pilgrim is Howard Kramer’s fourth book in the Complete Pilgrim series. Kramer, a peripatetic, created the series by touring nearly thirty countries, forty American cities, and taking hundreds of pictures of the...
Likud: Settlement leaders opposing Trump plan are ‘irresponsible,’ ‘crazy’
Two weeks before Israel plans to begin applying sovereignty in the Jordan Valley and parts of Judea and Samaria, some settlement leaders on Sunday continued to vocally oppose the Trump administration’s “Peace to Prosperity”...
Orphaned in Mumbai in 2008, Moshe Holtzberg celebrates his bar mitzvah
Moshe Holtzberg, who was orphaned in the Mumbai Chabad center massacre that took the lives of his parents 11 years ago this week, was called to the Torah for the first time in his hometown of Afula, Israel, on Shabbat and celebrated his bar mitzvah on...
Marvel series ‘Moon Knight’ to feature first overtly Jewish superhero
The highly anticipated Marvel superhero series, “Moon Knight,” which is scheduled to debut on the streaming platform Disney+, has sparked a great deal of excitement among comic-book fans, among other reasons because it features, for...
The Jerusalem Film Festival turns 39
The Jerusalem Film Festival (JFF) starts on July 21 and runs until the end of the month at the Jerusalem Cinematheque and environs.
The program includes full-length features, documentaries and experimental films released in the last year, short films,...
Managing nuclear risk: Intellectual obligations for the U.S. and Israel
World politics remain rooted in anarchy. This means that almost every nation-state’s security is ultimately contingent on the uncertain dynamics of military threat. It also means variously expanding state dependencies on military alliance, counter-proliferation and...
Top 7 gubernatorial races Jewish voters should watch
With many of the nation’s voters fixated on the races for control of Congress, arguably elections on the state level have more of an impact on the people’s daily lives. Similar to the federal...
The Irish Senate’s ‘boycott Israel’ debate
Reading the transcript of the debate that took place in the Irish Senate on July 11 before that body voted, by 25-20, to criminalize commercial relations with Jewish communities in the West Bank, I was struck...
Blinken urges Iran to release answers on death of former FBI agent Robert Levinson
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with the family of former Jewish FBI agent Robert “Bob” Levinson, who U.S. officials believe was abducted by the Iranian government more than a decade ago.
“I was...