Tag: Jewish culture
Multi-sensory exhibit explores Yemenite Jewish culture and history
A new exhibition in New York City invites the public to see, smell, listen and touch artifacts and items pertaining to the rich Yemenite Jewish culture.
The American Sephardi Federation’s “The Teimani Experience” is a...
Carmel Valley festival offers a taste of Jewish culture
You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy Jewish food and culture.
Many found that out Sunday at the 30th annual Jewish Food Festival at Congregation Beth Israel on Carmel Valley Road.
The annual fundraising event...
Group follows Jewish tradition of clowning
There is a long tradition of clowns as entertainers in Jewish culture.
Mitzvah clowns have a tradition of getting dressed up wildly and bringing happiness to senior homes and children's hospitals to fulfill the Jewish mitzvah (commandment) of bikur...
Hebrew school curriculum celebrates diversity of Jewish Culture
Hebrew teacher Chana Zinstein, of Temple Emanuel of Pascack Valley, recently developed a new curriculum that explores the similarities and differences between Sephardic and Ashkenazi holiday minhagim, and how Jews from both Israel and...
Trip to Poland unexpectedly sparked pride in my Jewish identity
I recently returned from a jam-packed 10-day trip to Poland as a guest of the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, on whose advisory board I am honored to serve. The trip was more than...
Celebrating jewish american heritage month in May
Lupus. Hepatitis. Malaria. Childhood leukemia. These are just a few of the many diseases for which Gertrude Elion developed life-saving drugs. While her name is on 45 drug patents, there are many who are...