‘A great project for all Egyptians’: Egypt to repair synagogue in city of eight...
Alexandria’s historic synagogue has very few visitors. In a city once home to almost 25,000 Jews, Alexandria’s Jewish community is now said to number fewer than eight people, most of whom are elderly.
Originally built...
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...
120 years later: 3 days in Basel that changed the course of the Jewish...
In late August 1897, some 200 Jews from 17 countries arrived in Basel, Switzerland.
Dressed in festive formal attire, the delegates entered the municipal casino concert hall, which was decorated with blue and white flags...
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...
In Greece, a city struggles to come to terms with its Jewish past
Walking through the bustling center of Thessaloniki, Greece, Hella Kounio Matalon points off to the distance.
“Most of the properties that we see on this road are former Jewish properties,” she said as she walked...
Should Jewish celebrities be wearing yellow stars?
In September 1939, while Nazi Germany invaded Central Poland and initiated World War II, Polish Jews were ordered to wear signifying markers on their clothing to identify them as such.
Germany was already steeped in...
5 holiday drinking games to get through the Jewish holidays
1. Rosh Hashanah
Welcome in 5778 the only way a Jewish family knows how to–with lots of food, chutzpah, and liquor. All New Year's resolutions about less lashon harah (did you see what Adam’s new girlfriend was...
Holby storyline gives rabbi her ‘Hollywood moment’
Leading Liberal rabbi Charley Baginsky has enjoyed her “Hollywood moment”, advising writers of the BBC’s medical soap, Holby City, on a Jewish plotline.
In reality, it was considerably more than a moment as her advisory role...
Community hopeful on Swiss Bill threatening kosher meat imports
The Swiss Jewish community expressed cautious optimism that a bill aimed at outlawing the importation of products made from animals that the legislation identifies as “mistreated” will not lead to a ban on bringing...
Meet Erin Davis, Fairy Godmother of The New York City Jewish Singles Scene
Erin Davis’s grandparents grew up in the same Polish village, were herded into the same ghetto, fell in love in hiding, and escaped together to a displaced person’s camp.
Erin Davis’s parents fell in love...