By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org Judging from its ritual text, the ketubah (marriage contract) that is read aloud during a Jewish wedding ceremony isn’t the ...
Shabbat San Diego will be celebrating its fourth year of inclusive, uplifting, spiritually inspirational activities, October 26-28. The San Diego Jewish community will ...
Rep. Dan Goldman, a two-term Democrat facing a tough primary in New York’s 10th District, has been endorsed again by J Street, but in an unusual move, the pro-Israel advocacy group will also “approve” Goldman’s opponent, former City Comptroller Brad Lander, who has made Goldman’s stance on Israel and ties to AIPAC central to his... […]
Folklore scholar Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett doesn’t remember interviewing and recording the Yiddish folksinger Rose Cohen in 1968 in Toronto. But this recording may turn out to be one of the most significant ones that made it into the storied archives at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. In it, Cohen sings ten songs from her childhood... […]