Features
A taste of Druze culture
Israel21cJul 28, 2022
The Druze town of Daliat el-Carmel (also spelled Daliyat al-Carmel) is what its deputy mayor, Nisim Abu Hamad, calls “a mixture of modernity based on our Druze culture...
In Israel, Circassians preserve their culture
Israel21cJul 21, 2022
Hani Madaji says he dreams in Circassian, prays in Arabic, learns in Hebrew and travels in English. Madaji, 50, is a Circassian.
Meet the world’s oldest practicing physician
Special to the IJNJul 21, 2022
The day after his 100th birthday on July 10, Dr. Howard Tucker headed downtown to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Cleveland Guardians baseball game.
After a 30-year search-and-ransom saga, Jewish Ethiopian family retrieved ancient book
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJul 14, 2022
When they flew out of this country for Israel three decades ago, Askabo Meshiha’s family left something valuable behind — a centuries-old book of psalms written in...
Forty-five years on, Vietnamese refugees are still writing their Israeli story
JNSJul 14, 2022
From 1977 to 1979, Begin permitted entry to around 360 of the so-called Vietnamese “boat people,” in the aftermath of the Communist takeover of the Southeast Asian...
Enes Kanter Freedom brings Holocaust education to Muslim school
JTAJul 07, 2022
At the Brooklyn Amity School, a majority-Muslim private school in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, high school students are taking part in a new Holocaust education initiative...
Jewish ‘subculture’ enhances teenage girls’ lives
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAJun 09, 2022
In her new book, G-d, Grades, and Graduation: Religion’s Surprising Impact on Academic Success, sociologist Ilana Horwitz examines the ways a religious upbringing...
Eight fun facts about Shavuot in Israel
Israel21cJun 02, 2022
It’s time to get ready for what many consider to be the best holiday on the Jewish calendar: Shavuot.
When Torah meets caffeine
Shana GoldbergJun 02, 2022
People from the Denver Jewish community share their experiences of staying up all night for Shavuot learning.
Manhattan’s private rabbi-for-hire
JTAJun 02, 2022
Rabbi Rebecca Keren Eisenstadt lives in a one-bedroom apartment on Second Avenue on the Upper East Side, but she feels just as at home in the penthouses just a few...
