Are you wearing a mask as you're reading this? It doesn't matter. The buffet is open, look for the topics in bold. As I type this morning, Mayor Tishaura Jones and County Executive Sam Page are giving a press conference about a new mask mandate....

The decision by the iconic ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s to boycott sales of its popular product in the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem has been denounced by Israeli President Isaac Herzog as economic terrorism...

This piece was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for its newsletters here. (Chalkbeat via JTA) — “Hey, I did have one question …” That was the tentative opening to an email I...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — When I talk with Palestinian friends, I argue against BDS. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, I explain, has done little economic damage to Israel. It has only strengthened the right wing here while rendering Palestinians...

(JTA) — Numerous reviews of the Netflix reality series “My Unorthodox Life” have been written by Orthodox Jews, who complain that it presents a negative and one-sided view of Orthodoxy. I write from the perspective of an ex-Orthodox Jew, and...

Bullying commentary is misplaced Regarding the recent commentary (“Don’t let others be scared into silence,” June 30 edition) submitted by three prominent congregational rabbis and the executive director of our Jewish Community Relations Council,...

(JTA) — The Arizona Diamondbacks made baseball history Monday when they made Jacob Steinmetz, a 17-year-old right-handed pitcher from Woodmere, New York, their third round pick in the Major League Baseball draft. Steinmetz, who lists at 6-feet-5...

(JTA) — Last month, Pixar released “Luca,” the animated tale of a sea monster who becomes a boy on dry land. The protagonist must come to terms with the part of himself that makes him different, even reviled. And of course, by the end, Luca learns...

This article originally appeared on Kveller. With 46% of Americans fully vaccinated, trials for children under 12 in progress and a population eager to put the last year and a half in the rearview mirror, it’s no surprise that the cultural timeline...

For some of us, summer is a carefree time. As one Jew wrote: “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy.”  There’s at least one wrinkle in the enjoyment of those long summer afternoons:  the spoilsport rabbis of yore gave us 22 days of semi-mourning...

Time is still the boss. We like to attach that label to the person working above us or playfully rib a friend about how his husband or wife makes the rules, but the clock still wins in the end. Good Father Time. At 39 years old, I know that there is still...