(New York Jewish Week) — After stops in London, Tel Aviv and other locales, the world’s oldest nearly complete Hebrew Bible will be on view in New York City beginning on Sunday. Known as the Codex Sassoon, the book — which was written by a single...

Isn’t it interesting how buzz words become popular? Somehow someone somewhere coins a catch phrase, blabs it to everyone who owns ears, and then it gets repeated over and over until it becomes part of regular conversation. Often people use these...

Philip Roth’s relationships with women were, in a word, complicated (if you need specifics, read his ex’s memoir, Leaving a Doll’s House or another ex’s roman a clef, Asymmetry). But you don’t hear too much about his romance with Midge Maisel,...

LONDON (JTA) — At a reception of faith leaders at Buckingham Palace the day after Queen Elizabeth’s death in September, King Charles pulled Britain’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, aside for a word. The reception was pushed earlier in the day than...

Imagine that the decade is the 1950s, and you’re safeguarding your spuds from kids trying to stick little plastic face pieces with pushpins into them. If you’re guessing this was the precursor to the mustachioed, bulbous figure known as Mr. Potato...

Hit TV show Fauda is probably the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of Israeli content that has taken the world by storm. But the action-packed world of Doron Kabilio et al is far from being the only fabulous made-in-Israel TV you can catch...

There is nothing quite like the feeling of opening your email and finding you're being scolded by a rabbi. In this case, I had just published a story titled "Two ways to see Dale Chihuly artwork and how living on a kibbutz changed his life," in The Morning...

(JTA) — At least two American couples have been caught by Israeli customs for attempting to smuggle a total of more than 650 pounds of Fruit Roll-Ups into Israel, as the country experiences a dire shortage of the snack due to a TikTok craze. A video...

Well, it sure looked like Lea Michele was reading — and a not inconsiderable amount of Jewish names. On Tuesday, Michele and Myles Frost announced the Tony Awards picks for Broadway’s best, nominating plays about Jewish martyrs, a new take on a...

Last Sunday, the Jewish Women’s Archive held an advance screening of the film adaptation of Judy Blume’s Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, and it felt like a party. Not only because it was JWA’s first big public event since Covid, not only...

(JTA) — Shows about the Holocaust and a notorious American antisemitic incident picked up several Tony Award nominations Tuesday morning, as Broadway’s biggest honors made room for a sizable Jewish presence. Most notably, a revival of the 1998...

(JTA) — As a young teenager growing up in Manhattan, Nina Kauder found it nearly impossible to ask her mother difficult questions about puberty or her Jewish identity, for two reasons. Her mother had fled the Holocaust as a child and was, in Kauder’s...