A chuppah is used in many Jewish weddings, but how it's decorated can weave other cultures into the ceremony, too. Jason Finn/iStock via Getty Images Plus More than 10 years ago, I attended a college ...
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Newlywed trips to Israel foster understanding of Jewish traditions and values
Honeymoon Israel (HMI) is celebrating its 10th anniversary of organizing trips for newlyweds to the Holy Land, promoting connections to Jewish culture, traditions, and values. The post Newlywed trips ...
Antisemitism is a deep and enduring American tradition. And yet America is also exceptional. American Jews live in the clash of those two realities.
NEW BALTIMORE — Most of the traditions are thousands of years old, rooted in the history and culture of a people. Parishioners from the New Baltimore Reformed Church and others in the community ...
The Jewish calendar is notoriously imbalanced. After all of the holidays jammed into the month of Tishrei, it is nearly two full months before we celebrate the next one, Hanukkah. What do you do with ...
When people think of American Jews, a few things come to mind. New York City, “Seinfeld” and the entertainment industry are some examples. Rabbi Yosef Zarnighian of Congregation Mikveh Israel in ...
Chinese food has become a staple of many Jewish Americans' traditions each Dec. 25. Christina Horsten/picture alliance via Getty Images There is a meme that circulates every holiday season, an image ...
Religious tradition is not handed down fully formed from God on high. It's made by people, and shaped by human factors — politics, faith, fear, geography, community. And, sometimes, how pretty ...
For much of Jewish history, those words have carried a defiant undertone. They tried to destroy us, and we are still here. Survival has been our baseline achievement. To endure exile, persecution, ...
When Jewish leadership pitches the religion as there for the taking, many opt out, but when God needs every Jew's involvement, who'd want to walk away? (Terumah) ...
In a preface to the 1932 Hebrew edition of the painter Leonid Pasternak’s study of Rembrandt, Russian-Jewish poet Hayim Nahman Bialik observed that although the Dutch artist was not Jewish, we “must ...
The Charlotte Jewish Film Festival kicked off its 22nd year on Saturday, Jan. 24. The festival, open to the entire community, has 17 feature films lined up celebrating and highlighting Jewish culture.
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