Tag: Judaism

When you feel under attack, you’re not inclined to think big. You’re more consumed with immediate threats. The Jewish world these days is feeling under attack. Whether it’s the rise of anti-Semitism on all sides,...

Lacking explicit government permission, the Jordanian Waqf closed Aaron’s Tomb to all visitors on Thursday, after it claimed a group of Israeli tourists prayed at the site in violation of Jordanian law. According to the...

A new memoir written by Bob Dylan’s best friend gives readers a glimpse into parts of the music icon’s Jewish side that have previously fallen under the radar. In Dylan & Me: 50 Years of Adventures (written...

This week on Twitter, a Jewish writer in Los Angeles decided to dispense some advice to her followers. Ariel Sobel had become aware that a small group of white supremacists was compiling a list...

There is a dissonance between the Jewish story and narrative. We are a people who have demonstrated an inverse relationship between numbers and impact for thousands of years, and represent an unparalleled catalyst for...

ohn Glass bowed his head as the cantor’s melody echoed through the cemetery in prayer for the children buried beneath the grassy-green surface. Church bells sounded in the distance, a reminder of the unlikely setting...

It’s common knowledge that as Hitler’s bid to rid the world of Jews escalated, so did the world’s refusal to let them in. What’s not well known is that when those borders, ports, doors, windows,...

I’ve often heard (and many rabbis lament) that Shavuot is the only major Jewish holiday many Diaspora Jews have never heard of or ever celebrated. If you are one of these newbies to the holiday,...

Counting of the Omer (Hebrew: ספירת העומר‎, Sefirat HaOmer, sometimes abbreviated as Sefira or the Omer) is an important verbal counting of each of the forty-nine days between the Jewish holidays of Passover and Shavuot as stated in the Hebrew Bible: Leviticus 23:15–16. This mitzvah ("commandment") derives from the Torah commandment to count...

What happens when a devout Christian minister and equally devout Orthodox Jew 9,000 miles apart wrestle with the most sensitive of subjects, while 100,000 people across the country eavesdrop? They discover is that their two...