Culture
Jewish slugger named All-Star MVP
JTAJul 26, 2018
WASHINGTON — In a baseball All-Star game that set a record for home runs, Alex Bregman had the most important one. Bregman, the Jewish third baseman for the Houston...
’93Queen’ explores female Orthodox EMT group
Curt Schleier, JTAJul 19, 2018
NEW YORK — Like many heavily Orthodox sections of Brooklyn, Borough Park has been served for decades by an all-male volunteer ambulance corps called Hatzalah. The...
Backgammon is social unifier in Jerusalem
JTAJul 12, 2018
By Larry Luxner JERUSALEM — On a balmy evening recently, Arabs and Jews trickled into a leper colony in a leafy neighborhood in Jerusalem, the pulsating rhythms of...
Berg went from catcher to spy
Curt Schleier, JTAJun 28, 2018
NEW YORK — It’s rare enough for a Jewish baseball player to make it to the major leagues. A New York Jew named Moe Berg took it even a step […]
Dead Sea Scrolls rotated
Andrea JacobsJun 14, 2018
closing time at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science on June 5. Volunteers exiting out of the service entrance deposit their keys and head home with the public —...
Mahane Yehuda: Hip hangout by night
Ben Sales, JTAMay 31, 2018
JERUSALEM — In another life, Kobi Frig would have been sitting behind vats of spices in Jerusalem’s bustling, labyrinthine Mahane Yehuda market, hawking paprika,...
New Han Solo is a nice Jewish boy from LA
Gabe Friedman, JTAMay 24, 2018
LOS ANGELES — “Star Wars” fans are eagerly awaiting the franchise’s latest film, “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” As its title suggests, the flick focuses on Han...
The story of Sobibor
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMay 17, 2018
MOSCOW — A decade ago, relatively few people in Russia even knew about the existence of Sobibor, the smallest-scale facility of the six killing centers that the Nazis...
In the footsteps of Leonard Cohen
Ben Harris, JTAMay 03, 2018
MONTREAL — Just inside the gate of the Shaar Hashomayim synagogue off Boulevard du Mont Royal, a gravestone bears an unusual Star of David, the sharp angles of its two...
Celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s extraordinary gift
Penny Schwartz, JTAApr 19, 2018
NEW YORK — From his birthplace in Boston to New York, Berlin, South Africa, China and Israel, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), the larger-than-life conductor, pianist,...
