August 22, 1609: Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, known as the “Maharal” of Prague,...
Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, known as the “Maharal” of Prague, died on this date in 1609. Legend and literature credit him with constructing and animating the Golem in order to protect and serve...
‘Incredible India’ and its Jewish community
I travel the world. When someone mentions Asia, I immediately conjure up mystical India.
Falling in love with "Incredible India," as the its own ministry of tourism puts it, is not difficult, even though the...
Meet Joc Pederson
Dodger fans have been aching for a World Series Championship since 1988 when they beat the Oakland Athletics in 5 games.
This was the series where Kirk Gibson hit his infamous homerun in game 1.
Dodger...
Jewish Life Television Mourns the Passing of Its Founder, Phil Blazer
We are saddened by the passing of our founder, Phil Blazer, on August 25, 2020 in Burbank, California, at the age of 76.
Phil Blazer's broadcasting career began at the age of 21 when legendary...
Meet Diego Schwartzman, the best Jewish tennis player on earth
When Wimbledon starts next week, no other Jewish tennis player will be seeded higher than Diego Schwartzman.
The scrappy 24-year-old from Argentina, fresh off an impressive five-set duel with perennial star Novak Djokovic at the...
Photographer Irving Penn in retrospect at MOPA
SAN DIEGO – If you were a reader of Harper’s Bazaar or Vogue, especially during the 20thcentury, you might have become very familiar with the fashion photography of Irving Penn, who was born to a Jewish father and...
September 10, 1947: Al Rosen, “The Hebrew Hammer”, played in his first major...
Al Rosen, third baseman and slugger with the Cleveland Indians for the entirety of his ten-year career, played in his first major league game on this date in 1947. Rosen had already acquired the...
Asenath Barzani: Remarkable Hebrew scholar
Can you fathom a young Kurdish Jewish woman in 17th century Iraq who for years served as rosh yeshivah in Mosul and as leader of the Jewish community?
Asenath Barzani was the daughter of Rabi...
That Time a Jewess Joined the Daughters of the American Revolution
Abigail Minis was a widow, in her eighties and Jewish, but that didn’t stop her from doing her part to fight the British during the Revolutionary War. She put her skills and resources as...
Jews in Turkey
In the fourteenth century, when the * Ottoman state was in its early formative stages, Jews were already settled in Anatolia and the *Balkans, where they had lived for many centuries.Most of them were...