By Howard Blas, JNS.org For Mia Raskin, basketball and Judaism are essential parts of life. Her deep and simultaneous commitment to her favorite ...

By Jennifer Stempel, @thecubanreuben A Los Angeles native, Jennifer Stempel is a St. Louis-based storyteller, whose work has been featured by Woman’s Day, ...

By Jacob Kamaras Emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic with renewed energy, Congregation Adat Yeshurun of La Jolla this month will host “Breath of ...

By Deborah Vietor Imprisonment can mean many things, not only in the physical sense, yet emotionally and metaphorically as well. Iron focuses on ...

By Sheldon Kleiman Memorial Day is dedicated to commemorating the loss of all lives of our military in the service of our nation. ...

By Stephanie Lewis That’s the name of a new Mother’s Day gameshow I was on, and one you’ll never watch (If I have ...

The Torah instructs us (in Leviticus 23:15-16) to perform the nightly ritual of counting the Omer, beginning on the second night of Pesach ...

By Donald H. Harrison Jewish San Diegans have been involved in providing humanitarian services to Ukrainian refugees almost every step of their frightened ...

By Lynne Feldman On Mount Herzl in Israel, a monument which looks a bit like a broken home commemorates 167 Holocaust survivors who ...