Tag: Jewish pride
How two Yiddish soul sisters became a singing sensation
When singers Polina Fradkin and Paulina Levi got 50,000 Instagram followers, they celebrated with a cake.
But these days, they are really cooking.
The Shvesters (the Yiddish word for “The Sisters”) now have 134,000 followers on...
Mentally, past 10 months have ‘taken a huge toll,’ Jewish students say
Warren Weissbluth, a student at Rice University in Houston studying engineering and entrepreneurship, thinks of himself as “very much a fighter in nature.” At an airport in Greece, an Israeli woman, who noticed his...
Miami Jews, Christians protest Target’s Pride merchandise for children
Some 30 Jews and Christians gathered across the street from a Target store in Midtown Miami on June 1 to protest the retail corporation’s LGBTQ Pride merchandise for children.
There were also counterprotesters and a...
Clarity, away from the fireworks
We were mostly white high society kids in a racially segregated city, witnessing lavish displays of patriotism from privileged vantage points. In Washington, D.C., where I was born and raised, we rarely stayed in...
Giving my children something more than I had growing up
Like many millennials, I am concerned about the economy and how it affects my family life. My husband and I have at times earned more than twice what my mom and dad did (adjusted...