Developing a Children camp to save the memory of Sosua
This Sunday is Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), a day to collectively bow our heads and remember the millions of lives taken during the Holocaust. Given the current political climate in the US and...
Deviating from Torah law leads to consequences
This week’s Torah reading contains both narrative history and dogmatic Jewish halakha. It relates to us the tragic story of the deaths of the two older sons of Aaron, when they apparently willfully mishandled...
SAVAGE: Finding out I’m not Jewish: reflections on cultural identity
This bit of news is only funny because for most of my life I believed, with good reason, that I was a Jew.
It’s a story, but we have time.
My father left home when he...
PBS cooking host Pati Jinich’s Mexican-Jewish Passover
Celebrity chef Pati Jinich grew up in Mexico City, where she spent Shabbat dinners at her bubbe’s house.
“When we walked into her house,” Jinich fondly recalls of her grandmother, “the first thing she had...
Mexican MasterChef Contestant Refuses to Eat Her Unkosher Concoctions, For Now
A Jewish contestant on the Mexican version of MasterChef Junior didn’t push her faith to the back burner, even when it meant cooking with a treyf ingredient.
Batia Bresca, a 13-year-old from Mexico City, recently made the...
6 Jews To Watch at the Grammy’s
Award season is in full swing and the next big show just happens to be the music event of the year.
The 58th Annual Grammy Awards are Monday February 15 and features some Jewish nominees...