Hanukkah celebrates both an ancient military victory and a miracle of light – modern Jews can pick from either tradition

Zionists draw on the military imagery of Hanukkah, while others look to the synagogue prayers that focus on the miracle of ...
BroadwayWorld

Bad Jews Off-Broadway Original Cast

Bad Jews is a world-premiere comedy about the holy and the holier-than-thou. Daphna Feygenbaum is a Real Jew--just ask the Israeli boyfriend she met on Birthright. So when her cousin Liam brings home ...
The Forward

As young Jews move away from Israel, Jewish leaders are reluctant to change their approach

WASHINGTON — Anna Langer stood behind the podium earlier this week at one of the largest gatherings of Jewish professionals in the world and laid out hard facts on the relationship between American ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

1 in 3 US Jews have taken action amid antisemitism many now see as ‘normal,’ analysis finds

American Jews are installing security systems and buying guns in large numbers, according to survey data released nearly two years into the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The surveys by the Anti-Defamation ...
The Conversation

Stalin’s postwar terror targeted Soviet Jews – in the name of ‘anti-cosmopolitanism’

I have in the past received funding from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the ACLS, and the National Endowment for the ...