Review: ‘Bad Jews’ will make you laugh, cringe and think
How fitting that the Actors’ Warehouse would select “Bad Jews” as the first offering in its classy new venue — a former church on Northeast First Street that has long since been repurposed from...
En un barko
En un barko avía un haham, un imam i un papás ke stavan kaminando.
El papás disho: “Mozotros rogamos ke kuantos guevos komemos en la Paskaliá, tantos de los Muzulmanos ke se mueran”.
El imam: “Mozotros...
LISTEN: Bob Dylan (Finally) delivers Nobel Lecture
The saga of Bob Dylan’s oddly ambivalent acceptance of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature is finally over, as the singer-songwriter presented his Nobel Lecture on June 4.
“When I received the Nobel Prize for...
Le stupéfiant cheminement de la haine antisémite en cent dessins
Lorsqu'il était jeune, Stéphane Grimaldi voulait être historien. Si la vie l'a finalement conduit au droit, il n'a pas oublié comment dérouler une histoire. Passer par les petites pour retracer la grande, tel est selon lui un...
The jews’ hospital
New York’s 45-bed Jews’ Hospital opened for patients on this date in 1855. It would change its name to the Mount Sinai Hospital after the Civil War. Founded by Sampson Simson, a philanthropist, on...
Charles Dickens and the Jews
Charles Dickens, one of the 19th century’s greatest novelists, died at the age of 58 on this date in 1870. Dickens had a complicated relationship with Jews in Great Britain. On the one hand,...
Israeli police to be issued body cameras
After a year-long study of body cameras around the world and a six-month pilot program, the Israel Police has decided to acquire 8,000 of them for their officers, The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday.
The...
Jewish parents concerned as California K-12 schools see reported rise in antisemitism
Parents of Jewish students in California’s East Bay school district gathered late last month to discuss their concerns that antisemitism was on the rise following the appearance of swastikas and other Nazi imagery on numerous campuses...
The Forgotten Truth about the Balfour Declaration
On November 2, 1917, a century ago, Arthur James Balfour, the British foreign secretary, conveyed the following pledge in a public letter to a prominent British Zionist, Lord Walter Rothschild:
His Majesty’s Government view with...
A shabbaton taught me wellness as a woman on the autism spectrum
Sarah Waxman and I immediately bonded over our curly, Jew-fro-esque hair. As Jewish women have done for centuries, we swapped notes over the creams, conditioners, gels, and mousses we use to keep the frizz...