Readers of the St. Louis Jewish Light may be aware of my lifelong love affair with comic books and my pride in the fact that many of the creators, story writers and artists within the industry are Jewish.  I’ve been especially fond of Superman, the...

(JTA) — An exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan, “Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art,” examines the Nazis’ theft of masterworks from the collections of the Jews they persecuted and of others they merely exploited. Andrew...

(JTA) — I’ve spent most of the last decade focused on grassroots organizing and capacity building inside the American progressive movement. From helping build the largest leadership development organization on the left, to launching a first-of-its-kind...

This article originally appeared on Alma. Growing up with one foot in Mexico and one foot in the United States, I am no stranger to the idea of straddling two cultures. In religious studies, we call this idea liminality. Vampires, centaurs and even...

(JTA) — I grew up Jewish in Alaska. The Jewish community in Anchorage, the city where I grew up, did things their own Jewish way. It was the only kind of Judaism that I knew. For example, I used to think that everyone had their bar or bat mitzvah...

In 2008, I wrote “U.S. Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Gulliver’s Travails,” in which I stated that I was “particularly interested in exploring the difficult foreign policy choices that confront the United States today in a post-Cold War environment...

I remember distinctly the first time I saw this photograph, hanging in a huge frame over the mantel in cousin Susan’s house in Ann Arbor, Mich., 32 years ago.    That weekend the Neumann family had gathered from all over to celebrate her parents...

Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrant parents who rose to the very top in military leadership and diplomacy, died Monday of complications from COVID-19. His passing leaves a huge void that will be almost impossible to fill. General Powell became...

We are one week away from Halloween, which is like a warning that the winter holiday season is right around the corner -- hiding so it can jump out, yell “BOO!” and scare you when you least expect it. Halloween is also a fantastic time to ponder...