Features
Frozen in time
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTANov 23, 2023
A pocket watch, frozen in time when the Titanic sank, sold at auction Nov. 18 for £83,000 ($101,600).
Unity of mind, and action, sweeps across Israel
Chaim GoldbergNov 09, 2023
Israel is experiencing an unprecedented, overwhelming force of unity. What does it look like? For starters, this is not a unity of words and platitudes. This time,...
Memorializing the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
JTAOct 19, 2023
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory tragedy transformed US labor law and the building that housed the factory, now a New York University science building, was designated a...
Etrog — the wandering fruit
JTAOct 05, 2023
Together with Warren Klein, the curator of the Bernard Museum of Judaica at Temple Emanu-El, and Sharon Liberman Mintz, Josh Teplitsky’s probing into the history, use,...
Letter from Jerusalem — Divine peace
Hillel GoldbergOct 05, 2023
I have never seen nor even imagined a party like this. Hundreds of people were there; actually, thousands; truth to tell, tens of thousands of people were at this party....
Jewish children’s author recalls Sukkot, Iraqi-style
JNSSep 28, 2023
Growing up in Sydney, Sarah Sassoon, 42, had a very different experience from the canvas or wooden sukkah. The sukkahs that her Iraqi-born father made were composed...
IV therapy — from Instagram to pre-Yom Kippur hydration hack
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTASep 21, 2023
The rise of non-medical IV treatments, a trend in so-called “wellness” culture that celebrities including Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber have popularized, has been...
The imprisoned — Yom Kippur speaks to them
JNSSep 21, 2023
“The One who answered Joseph in jail, will answer us.” So reads one of several imprisonment references in Yom Kippur prayers, in line with the themes of judgment and...
Synagogues are coming to terms with slave labor
Steve LipmanSep 14, 2023
America's oldest synagogues, Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island and Kahal Kadosh Beth Eloh-m (KKBE) in Charleston, South Carolina, are coming to terms with slave...
Food relief program delivers to Ukraine ahead of Rosh Hashanah
JNSSep 14, 2023
A food-relief program to manufacture, produce and bake kosher foods within Ukraine will help Jews will have a sufficient supply of items when they sit down to their Rosh...
