Culture
Busing in Denver was neither easy nor calm
Chris LeppekSep 17, 2020
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5781 SECTION D PAGE 12 One is tempted at first glance to think that Phil Goodstein might have chosen to use a touch of hyperbole in titling his...
Ghanain actor potrays Jewish astronaut
Gabe Friedman, JTASep 17, 2020
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5781 SECTION D PAGE 10 NEW YORK — Ato Essandoh isn’t Jewish, or British, or an astronaut — but he plays an African-British-Jewish astronaut...
Oy vey! Yiddish goes psychedelic
JTASep 03, 2020
By Joe Bauer WEIMAR, Germany — What if the Yiddish-speaking poets and songwriters had electric guitars and amps in the shtetl? That’s the question Sasha Lurje and...
Court rules: museum may keep looted painting
Marcy Oster, JTAAug 27, 2020
A Spanish museum, not the heirs of a Jewish woman fleeing the Holocaust, is the rightful owner of a Pissarro painting now valued at $40 million, a US appeals court has...
Israelis are vacationing in their own backyard
Uriel Heilman, JTAAug 27, 2020
JERUSALEM — There’s nothing Israelis like to do better in August than leave the country. The summertime heat is oppressive, state-subsidized Israeli summer camps...
Pandemic shatters kosher Polish café’s success
JTAAug 20, 2020
By Bruce Lowitt, Jewish Press of Pinellas County via JTA TAMPA BAY — Marcia Vineberg was nearly packed and ready to rejoin her husband. It’s complicated. They had...
‘Hello Darkness My Old Friend’ recounts author’s frienship with Art Garfunkel
JTAAug 06, 2020
By David Rullo, Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA PITTSBURGH — Sandy Greenberg recalls walking along Amsterdam Avenue in New York City with his best friend Arthur...
The new foodie normal: Workshops instead of travel
JTAAug 06, 2020
By Karen Chernick TEL AVIV — The reservations were rolling in, and Inbal Baum was preparing for her busiest summer yet of food tours through Israel’s famed open-air...
Sefaria moves from the Talmud to democracy
Shira Hanau, JTAJul 23, 2020
NEW YORK — Could democracy take a page from the Talmud? The creators of Sefaria, a project to digitize Jewish texts, think so. Since 2012, Sefaria, a database of...
Lawyer by day; Instagram sensation by night
JTAJul 09, 2020
By Rachel Ringler, the Nosher I came across his Instagram site several months ago, and it stopped me mid-scroll. His food was beautiful, the vegetables carefully...
