“Tree of Life” by Abbie Strauss (Jewish Rock Radio) Tu B’Shvat is coming up, and as a total nature-lover, I love any chance to appreciate the great outdoors! Nature is also full of powerful metaphors that help us understand our place in the world...

Great things happen on planes, a time and space where people can either sleep, talk or read. Thankfully for wrestling fanatics, Jewish St. Louisan Sam Muchnick used a plane trip in 1958 very wisely. Thanks to Ed Wheatley's book, "Wrestling at the Chase,"...

The Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School has appointed Raquel Scharf-Anderson as Mirowitz's next Head of School beginning July 1. According to a letter sent to parents, Scharf-Anderson has spent most of her career in the Jewish day school world....

“The world urgently needs a new way to treat mental health issues, and at PsyRx we believe psychedelics are a big part of the solution,” says Itay Hecht. Hecht is CEO and cofounder of this Israeli company, which is developing standardized pharma-grade...

Movies directed by the Coen brothers (Joel and Ethan) always carry a bitter aesthetic, like getting a glimpse of people living on the edge of society and the rules that encapsulate them. The Jewish brothers' content isn't just edgy, more like darker black...

(JTA) — Israel announced Monday that it would reduce its restrictions on travel that were first put in place in November to delay the entry of the Omicron variant into the country now that the variant is spreading rapidly across the country through...

The American division of the Israeli company Teva Pharmaceuticals was found liable in a lawsuit alleging responsibility for aspects of the opioid crisis in this country. “Teva Pharmaceuticals USA...misled the American people about...

(JTA) — Israel is set to begin administering a second booster shot to Israelis over 60 and to medical workers who received their first booster at least four months ago in a bid to protect vulnerable segments of the population against the Omicron variant...

What does one do when it's raining all day on the first day of the year? Watch some good television, movies, and shows alike -- unless you are watching the latest "Fauda" trailer for the seventh time. Grab a trustworthy blanket and finish off that bagel...

There is a new class for expecting parents. The phrase “B’sha’ah Tovah” is the traditional response to learning that someone is expecting a child – it literally translates to “at a good hour,” but is understood to mean “may everything...

“The Girl from Oslo” — a holiday gift from my Netflix algorithm, undoubtedly prompted by my consumption of nearly every Israeli series that the streamer has to offer — sidled into my feed last week and became my last series binge of 2021. The...

Imagine you're a Scottish lord taking a nice stroll on a rather foggy morning when you suddenly come across three mysterious witches in your path. They mutter a set of words that entices you yet also frightens at the same time: through a series of events,...