WATCH: Trump Surrogate Accuses Jay-Z of Throwing ‘Mazel Tov Cocktails’
Yiddish made its debut in the election last December when Donald Trump mocked rival Hillary Clinton for getting “schlonged” in her primary fight eight years ago with President Barack Obama.
As the campaign enters its...
Waiting On A Mechanical Cloud
As most people know, Nissan is a Japanese company that produces some of the best automobiles in their particular price range. Not content to rest on its laurels as a manufacturer of cars, Nissan...
Interfaith Kids Are Still Being Raised Jewish. Here’s How.
Twenty-five years after studies noted unprecedentedly high rates of interfaith marriage for American Jews, noted scholar Steven M. Cohen wrote an article asking how Jews were doing in protecting Jewish continuity in light of...
Divine Intersection: The Surprising Story of the Jews Who Became Sufi Muslims
At a burial shrine set in the rolling farmland of Pennsylvania, a group of Sufi devotees swayed in prayer, chanting the many names of God. The women, heads covered in loose shawls, sat on...
Hero: Mexico’s UNESCO envoy walked out to protest Islamist resolution on Jerusalem, now may...
Andrés Roemer Slomianski, Mexico’s newly-arrived ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, is not only a diplomat, political analyst, attorney, economist, think tank founder, and author of 16 books and two award-winning plays.
He is also a hero.
When...
The Replacement Of Heroes By Robots
Heroes are a very important part of every society. They act as a focal point for the members of a society to be inspired to do special good things with their lives. Most of...
The High Holidays in Ladino: a Rhodesli Custom from Romania to Johannesburg, Seattle, and...
Nótese que en esta ocasión nos referimos a Ladino, porque son textos hebreos -litúrgicos- escritos en letras hebreas pero con ortografía en djudeo-espanyol para que la gente que no sabe hebreo lo pueda leer.
The congregants complained...
Israel bonds remembers Shimon Peres
Development Company for Israel (International) Ltd/Israel Bonds mourns the passing of Shimon Peres, 9th president of the State of Israel. The last member of Israel's founding generation, President Peres lived an extraordinary life, with...
After Shimon Peres, Peace Remains Elusive
In the last two weeks, a few events happened that impact the Israeli/Palestinian crisis. Most recently Shimon Peres — an Israeli legendary leader, twice prime minister, president and one of the architects of the...
How Much Can Happen in Seven Seconds: Rosh Hashanah 5777
In 2007, at Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, scientists conducted a troubling experiment. They put people into an MRI machine and asked them to press one of two buttons in front of...