In Connecticut, New York and California, young Jewish activists are taking responsibility for procuring, slaughtering and distributing kosher meat. Why the sudden interest? On a
The Sudanese security officer fingered my American passport and asked where my family was from. “America,” I said. He smiled, and then pressed further: “Where
Equally well known in Washington’s corridors of power as at government tables in far-flung countries including North Korea, Cuba, Pakistan, China and Russia, American businessman
Unlike in earlier times, Israel’s chief rabbinate is measuring potential converts to Judaism with the strictest halakhic yardstick. A new rabbinic fellowship begs to differ.
Kingston, Jamaica, is not customarily associated with a colorful Jewish past. But the hundred or so delegates attending the annual conference of the Union of
This professor-turned-archivist is determined to make strong Jewish women a thing of the past, present and future. Twelve years ago, Gail Twersky Reimer was on