‘Wild West’: Gunslingers, barons — and Jews
JTADec 26, 2019
By Adi Eshman NEW YORK— A new documentary about the Wild West covers everything you would expect — gunslingers, cattle barons, lawmen and wide-open spaces. And one...
How my Bukharian community celebrates Chanukah
JTADec 19, 2019
CHANUKAH 5780 SECTION E PAGE 13 By Manashe Khaimov, JTA/My Jewish Learning When I was growing up in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, all of my relatives and friends lived close...
Recalling a powerful Chanukah heroine, Judith
JTADec 19, 2019
CHANUKAH 5780 SECTION E PAGE 9 By Steph Black, JTA/Alma Chanukah season means latkes, menorahs and the retelling of the classic story about Judah and the Maccabees. But...
Former Denverite behind ‘Mrs. Maisel’
JTADec 12, 2019
By Arielle Kaplan, Kveller Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” just might be the best thing to happen to American Jews since sliced challah. Created by Amy...
Treating the side effects
JTADec 05, 2019
By Shelley A. Sackett MIAMI — When Emil and Lili Berkovits moved to Boynton Beach, Florida, from Salem, Massachusetts, in 2014, they were excited to start their...
$50,000 grants to combat BDS
JTANov 28, 2019
By Michelle Chabin Robert Kraft, Genesis, others to fund projects that show Israel in a positive light. TEL AVIV — The Genesis Prize Foundation and 2019 Genesis Prize...
Fall of Wall revived Judaism in Central, Eastern Europe
JTANov 14, 2019
By Liam Hoare “Neither ox nor donkey can block the path to socialism,” the East German leader Erich Honecker boldly declared on Aug. 14, 1989. Less than three months...
Never too late: Holocaust survivor celebrates Bar Mitzvah at 91
JTANov 14, 2019
By Marcus M. Gilban RIO DE JANEIRO — At 91, Holocaust survivor Andor Stern no longer fears the Nazis who imprisoned him in Auschwitz. Living in his native Sao Paulo,...
Pearl Billings
JTAOct 10, 2019
Pearl “Penny” Billings passed away Sept. 23, 2019, in Denver. Rabbi Steven Kaye officiated at the Oct. 2 graveside service at Fort Logan National Cemetery....
Rosh Hashanah identifies an irreplaceable humanity
JTAOct 03, 2019
By David Bashevkin Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of mankind. But if Rosh Hashanah is indeed the collective birthday of humanity, why do we celebrate with all...
