TEAM JONJ, JEWORNOTJEW.COM
• Published March 9, 2022
It’s a right of Jewish passage to wonder who out there in the world is Jewish too, especially famous people like actors, singers, athletes, and even social media stars and YouTubers. It’s just something we do.
So, to better answer the question...
ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published February 28, 2022
The above headline is an obvious play on President John F. Kennedy’s historic speech in front of the Berlin Wall: “Ich bin Ein Berliner”—“I am a Berliner!” The horrific unprovoked war on the innocent people of Ukraine perpetrated by Russian...
BY BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE
• Published February 28, 2022
Aging is a challenge as we all know. However, it no longer means having to sit home alone, in a rocking chair on the porch or waiting for the phone to ring.
As aging boomers, whether healthy or not, let’s try to spend our time doing what we can and...
Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback, The Forward
• Published February 26, 2022
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In 1911, my grandpa Jake was born in the small Hungarian village of Torun in the Carpathian Mountains....
Today, February 14th is one day of the year that is directly linked to love, I decided to research the phenomenon of love to see what modern science has to say about it.
Surprisingly, scientists have only relatively recently begun to research the...
This story was originally published on Feb. 4 by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning.
The parade of Olympic athletes in their national colors, the international diplomatic corps looking...
Rishona Campbell, The Forward
• Published February 3, 2022
This story was originally published on February 3 by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning.
Before anything else, let me say that I have no intention of “canceling” Whoopi Goldberg....
Melanie Phillips, JNS
• Published February 3, 2022
The signature characteristic of German Nazism was that it set out to exterminate Jews as a race, identifying them as targets for annihilation on the basis of even a tenuous ancestral connection with Judaism.
In an extraordinary move to attain media synchrony, Amnesty International actually pre-positioned an “embargoed” press release to maximize simultaneous anti-Israel impact.
The growing volume of lip service paid by the world to the memory of the Six Million is neatly matched by the complacence about or support for contemporary Jew-hatred.
This story was originally published on January 20 by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning.
In the aftermath of the hostage situation at a synagogue in Texas, every Jewish institution...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 18, 2022
"As a rabbi who works as a chaplain at a hospital in Indianapolis, I’ve held my tongue a lot when it comes to COVID-19 and the emotional strain it puts on the medical staff. But now — as my team at Indiana University Health is responsible for pastoral...
