Hillel director listed among 50 most influential American Jews
Rabbi Yonah Schiller, executive director of Tulane Hillel, received a mysterious email from a colleague wishing him congratulations last Friday, before the Jewish holiday of Shabbat began. Unable to use the Internet or electronics during the...
A new museum traces 5,000 years of Chaldean history – pointing out connections to...
Barbara Kratchman, active in many organizations throughout the Jewish community, and Mary Romaya, active in many organizations throughout the Chaldean community, grew up in the same northwest Detroit neighborhood.
They rode their bikes along the...
2018 ‘Jewish Nobel’ goes to Natalie Portman
Jewish actress, director and social activist Natalie Portman is the winner of the 2018 Genesis Prize, the Genesis Prize Foundation announced on Tuesday.
The annual $1 million award, dubbed “the Jewish Nobel” by Time Magazine,...
Jewish actor portrays Nazi in ‘The Sound of Music’
Jewish actor Adam Ross Glickman of Cooper City stars as Austrian Nazi official Herr Zeller in the national tour musical of "The Sound of Music," running now through Oct. 22 at Broward Center.
As Zeller,...
8 chic modest dresses under $100 for the Synagogue Runway on Rosh Hashanah
Jewish holidays are joyous occasions — food abounds, the family gathers together and there’s laughing, singing and (sometimes) dancing. But nothing stresses out the modern Jewish woman quite like finding the perfect outfit to...
Secret Crypto-Jewish diaries rediscovered in New York, displayed in Mexico City
After renouncing Judaism, Luis de Carvajal was granted mercy: Instead of being burned alive, he was tied to a pole, noose around his neck, and slowly asphyxiated to death. His body was consumed in...
His bravery unsung, Varian Fry acted to save Jews
In June of 1935, two years after the German government falsely portrayed the burning of the Reichstag as a Communist plot to overthrow the state and just at the moment that it had banned...
It’s 2017, and the best athletes are Jews
By half-time at the Rose Bowl this weekend, UCLA was trailing 38-10. By the end of the third quarter, Texas A&M managed to widen its lead to 44-10. And even though the Bruins started...
Meet Aaron Brown – Jewish rocket scientist
Aaron Brown is an aerospace engineer specializing in trajectory analysis, design, and operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Aaron has worked as a Trajectory Operations Officer for the International Space Station program.
He is now engaged...
Meet Shannon Sarna, ‘Modern Jewish Baker’
Shannon Sarna, 35, of South Orange has baked new life into old standards, and she’s got me believing in the power of resurrection when it comes to Jewish carbohydrates.
If you swoon over the buttery...