To make it into your fancy cup, specialty coffee undergoes a long, arduous and often continent-crossing journey during which the beans must be maintained at just the right levels of humidity and look absolutely flawless. That’s no easy feat,...

(JTA) — Earlier this year, when my father was in the last weeks of his life, he told us a story that none of us knew or remembered. In the 1960s, when he was running a regional roofing company in Florida that became a multistate, multimillion-dollar...

(JTA) — Two more members quit the board of Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in protest after the government appointed a right-wing politician to serve on it. Following the resignation of Jewish philosopher Stanislaw Krajewski on Wednesday,...

Text Messages is a column sharing wisdom from the weekly Torah portion produced with The Jewish Week.  (JTA) — In the years following the reckonings with sexual harassment and assault prompted by the #MeToo movement, there has been debate over...

Up until Judd Apatow's "The King of Staten Island" came out in the summer of 2020, I didn't care for Pete Davidson that much. There he was, all over the poster, shirtless and covered in tattoos with his hands in the air as if to say, "here I am, take...

(JTA) — Yeshiva University is planning to eliminate its in-person Hebrew courses indefinitely, making what was at first a pandemic-induced measure a permanent one. The change was first reported by the YU Commentator, one of the university’s...

April 15, 1945 — Bergen-Belsen Is Liberated The British 11th Armored Division liberates the Nazis’ Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where Anne Frank is among an estimated 50,000 Jews and others who die in the final two years of World War II. About...

Thanks to the global health pandemic, many parents have been hunkered down at home with their kids for what may seem like an eternity. So, how does a daily reminder from your friends at the Jewish Light, about all the fun things there are to do around...

(JTA) — Landmarks in Boston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and other major U.S. cities lit up in the blue and white colors of Israel to mark that nation’s Independence Day on Wednesday night. Chapters of the Israeli-American Council, an advocacy and...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he anticipates more normalization agreements for Israel in the next year. Blinken spoke Wednesday evening in Washington, D.C., at the Israeli Embassy’s virtual celebration of that nation’s...

As the star continues to rise around Israeli actor Michael Aloni, thanks to his role as Akiva in the hit Netflix show Shtisel, he is not forgetting to use if fame to help others, which is why so many confirm he is the mensch he appears to be. Aloni...