Features
Greenland — not your usual economic opportunity
JTASep 14, 2023
For Paul Cohen, an American Jew who has lived in Narsaq, Greenland with his wife Monika for 22 years, Narsaq’s remoteness is more than offset by its stunning...
Colorado foodie, PBS competitor, shares High Holiday recipes
Larry HankinSep 07, 2023
Abbe Odenwalder, a retired artist, food blogger and enthusiastic home cook represented Colorado and Ashkenazi Jewry on the national stage as a contestant on the PBS...
Self-driving cars — on Shabbat?
Special to the IJNAug 31, 2023
Ask a rabbi about self-driving cars and you’d better be ready for a long answer.
Yes, for Jews in York, there was life after 1190
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAAug 31, 2023
Last month, the small Jewish community in the British city of York celebrated the arrival of a new rabbi, its first since the city’s Jewish community was nearly wiped...
Yeshiva University creates a space for Christians to study Judaism
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAAug 17, 2023
Emily Talento grew up with Jewish friends and relatives on Long Island, attending Passover seders, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs and Shabbat dinners. When she arrived at...
Masbia soup kitchen seeks to feed asylum-seekers from distressed nations
Steve LipmanAug 10, 2023
During the past year, New York soup kitchen Masbia, whose volunteers and staff members have joined those from a few other local refugee-protection and human rights...
New JFK documents: Oswald’s CIA monitor was Jewish
Ron Kampeas, JTAAug 10, 2023
Last month, a new document dump in the declassification of John F. Kennedy Jr. documents revealed the identity of the CIA screener: Reuben Efron, a lieutenant colonel in...
Atomic city
Andrea JacobsJul 26, 2023
“Jewish Life Flourishes in Atomic City!” This intriguing headline, accompanied by a three-column article by publisher Max Goldberg, ran in the Intermountain Jewish...
Jews help evangelicals talk to each other
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 20, 2023
A Jewish nonprofit, Resetting the Table, which has spent nearly a decade teaching Jewish groups to have more productive and meaningful conversations about Israel, is...
Denverite changed the world with invention of Barbie
JTAJul 13, 2023
Long before the craze over the upcoming “Barbie” movie, most people could conjure an image of the doll: She was the beauty standard and the popular girl, a perky,...
