By Eliana Rudee, JNS.org In a traditionally male-dominated industry, it is female Israeli restaurateurs at the forefront of Tel Aviv’s thriving culinary scene ...
By Salomón Maya The following column contains adult language. About a month ago, a natural phenomenon took San Diego by literal storm. Bioluminescent ...
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, New York Times Contributor spoke with attendees in May In the latest installment of American Jewish University’s (AJU) B’Yachad Together online ...
A small episode this week crystallized the broader pathology of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu more clearly than any grand speech or ideological argument ever could: the Knesset vote for state comptroller, one of the most sensitive institutional positions in Israeli public life. In Israel, the 120 members of the Knesset elect the comptroller by... […]
Growing up, we had a rule of thumb about yarmulkes: the closer yours was to your forehead, the more strictly religious you were. The frum bochurim placed theirs practically on their noses; the boys from Conservative families bobby-pinned their kippahs on the back of their heads, like climbers gripping a rockface. The cool kids, of course, stuffed... […]