Jewish life
Jewish groups protest removal of Jewish DA from Stanford protest case
Bay Area Jewish organizations said a judge’s decision to remove District Attorney Jeff Rosen from a Stanford protest case risks reinforcing antisemitic stereotypes.
Reaching unaffiliated families where Jewish life begins - opinion
Houston synagogue and Jewish day school close due to unspecified threats
Jewish food writer Joan Nathan discovers her relative’s martyrdom and full Holocaust history
OKCupid launches Hebrew version, with special personalization for traditional, orthodox Jews
This new feature will include a variety of personalization questions to help find a match for users' diverse lifestyles, the company said.
Chief Rabbinate opens certification exams to women after High Court ruling
The Chief Rabbinate opens its exams to women after a court ruling deemed the long-standing exclusion unlawful. A historic moment for equality in Israel’s religious institutions.
'To succeed as a Jew is to survive,' Natan Sharansky tells 'Post' - interview
Natan Sharansky is an Israeli politician, author, and former Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency. He was born in 1948 in what is now Donetsk, Ukraine, to a Jewish family
Bill Aron, photographer of Jewish countercultures, gets his due in a sweeping retrospective
A trained sociologist and street photographer, Aron took iconic photos of his fellow members of the New York Havurah in its 1970s heyday.
LA real estate investor donates $100M office tower to Chabad for largest Jewish center
Real estate investor Alon Abady donates a $100M office tower to Chabad, setting the stage for the creation of a massive Jewish center in the heart of Los Angeles.
From food to film: What an Indian thinks of kugel - opinion
The series created by Yehonatan Indursky, is an introspective work that uses the everyday textures of ultra-Orthodox Jewish life to tell a story about belonging, compromise, and emotional inheritance
When is it enough?
"But the more I pushed toward Orthodoxy, the more I realized the driving force wasn’t spiritual longing, it was the pressure to satisfy an external standard."
From golems to Horton to banana menorahs: This year’s Hanukkah kids’ books light up the imagination
Three titles garnered the recommendation of the Association of Jewish Libraries: “Construction Site, Hanukkah Lights,” “Banana Menorah,” and “Lost and Found Hanukkah.”
Parashat Toldot: Jacob’s conviction and Israel’s moral clarity
Jacob walked with conviction in silence; we must learn to walk with conviction amid the noise.
Innovative program at CUNY colleges retools Hillels as social service hubs for students
The program aspires to turn Hillels at CUNY schools, whose 16,000 Jewish students are almost all commuters, into hubs for Jewish life.
