The Jewish-American Writer Who Transformed U.S.-Mexico Relations
The Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles is currently highlighting the life and writing of Anita Brenner, a Mexican-born, American Jewish writer. Brenner was born in 1905 in Aguascalientes, and spent the majority of her...
Thousands of Ethiopian Jews gather in Jerusalem for Sigd
Thousands of Ethiopian Jews gathered in Jerusalem Thursday to celebrate the festival of Sigd, marking the community’s centuries-old aspirations to return to the holy city.
On a sunny, warm winter’s day, busloads of people came...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wins First Genesis Prize For Lifetime Achievement
The Genesis Prize Foundation awarded U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg its first lifetime achievement award.
The foundation, which sponsors the annual $1 million Genesis Prize known as the “Jewish Nobel,” in its announcement Wednesday...
Cletus ‘Hebrew Hammer’ Seldin Sinks Roberto Ortiz in Round 3 of Nassau Coliseum Fight
Top Jewish boxer Cletus “Hebrew Hammer” Seldin continued his daunting run of victories with a third-round stoppage win over Roberto Ortiz at the Nassau Coliseum on Saturday night.
The win brings the Long Island-born 31 year-old’s...
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...