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Exhibit explores artist behind ‘I Heart NY’

Most everyone recognizes the “I Love New York” logo, which can be found on everything from coffee mugs to snow globes to boxer briefs. Fewer, however, might...

Writer explores Sephardic, crypto Jewry

When Angelina Muñiz Huberman was six years old, her mother shut the main door of their apartment in Mexico City and, whispering as if under persecution, told her that...

‘Vegan Boxing Rabbi’

Boxer Yuri Foreman uses his expertise to provide kosher certification to eateries — on a no-charge basis. Unlike most rabbis, however, he’s only going to certify...

Graphic novel explores lost world of Jewish Malaysia

Scholars do not know exactly when Jews first came to Penang, one of the smaller states in Malaysia, located on the Southeast Asian nation’s western island.

The Hare with the Amber Eyes

By Sandee Brawarsky NEW YORK — Edmund de Waal believes that objects, like families, are diasporic. They start in one place and end up in another, accumulating stories....

In Florida, ‘Penny Lane’ is dedicated to the Beatles

Bobby Entel didn’t watch the Beatles’ Feb. 9, 1964 performance on the Ed Sullivan Show. He was seven years old at the time and in bed. Nor did he ever see them in...

Strung across the world

CHANUKAH 5782 SECTION D PAGE 12 as long as Michael Brittan can remember, he has been smitten by the violin. 
 “I grew up in a very musical family,” remembers...

Happy Chanukah! IJN Doris Sky Chanukah Coloring Contest Winners 2021

Winners of the 2021 Doris Sky Chanukah Coloring Contest are announced.

A (bent) spoonful of fun

Two thousand twisted pieces of cutlery adorn a 1976 Cadillac parked in the new Uri Geller Museum in Jaffa. A Guinness World Record-winning bent spoon, weighing 11 tons,...

Aravrit: At Dubai expo, a new Hebrew-Arabic script

When Liron Lavi Turkenich designed a writing system combining Hebrew and Arabic characters as a final project in college, she probably could not have imagined that her...