Israel’s prime minister is keeping gender segregation at Judaism’s holiest site
At the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism’s holiest site, women and men pray in sharply divided separate sections. There is no intermingling. That separation has long rankled progressive Jews in Israel and around the...
Jews barred from LGBT march for carrying Star of David pride flags
A parade in Chicago celebrating the lesbian community barred three Jewish women for carrying Jewish Pride flags.
Organisers of the 21st annual Chicago Dyke March told the women that the rainbow flags with a white Star...
Concentration Camp: The Eichmann trial and the origins of Punk Rock
It’s 3 a.m. in The Blue Room and the audience is sweaty with joy.
The Modern Lovers’ high-strung leader, Jonathan Richman, has just left the stage, his Nice-Jewish-Boy songs about being “in love with the...
Las Kuarenta Kazas de los Djudios de Bejar
Kon la puja del intereso enverso la istoria de los djudios de Espanya, en munchos lugares de este paiz son echos esforsos, estos ultimos anyos, para deskuvrir, i en la mizura del posible restorar,...
L’application Israélienne Waze va contribuer à accélérer les secours
Ce dernier comporte trois volets. D'abord, les incidents signalés à Waze seront transmis aux services d'urgence et intégrés dans leurs cartographies opérationnelles. Dans l'autre sens, les secours pourront transmettre aux utilisateurs de Waze des...
Jewish musicologist Richard Taruskin awarded Japanese ‘Nobel’
Musicologist Dr. Richard Taruskin has been awarded a 2017 Kyoto Prize, the Japanese Nobel.
Taruskin, a University of California, Berkeley professor emeritus, is the author of the six-volume The Oxford History of Western Music(2004). In...
How will Jews be remembered in Morocco when they are all gone?
I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. There I was, an Orthodox Israeli Jew, at a 500-year-old synagogue in Marrakesh, distributing food parcels to Muslims for Ramadan, representing the International...
Want a Jewish future? Forget emotion and look at the numbers
In early 2014, I joined a group of Jewish scholars and writers who gathered to ponder the startling statistics contained in the Pew Research Center’s recently published “A Portrait of Jewish Americans.” The intent...
The best deal ever
Everyone is talking about deal-making these days. The new president of the United States has been described as a deal-maker, and in fact, he wrote a book entitled The Art of the Deal. There...
New study shows Jewish spouses matter
One of the wisest things ever said about intermarriage came from former Atlantic sports columnist Jake Simpson: “No stat could have predicted … the wonder that was David Tyree’s helmet catch in Super Bowl...