[Editor’s Note: More than 100 participants tuned into Zoom on April 6 for WashU Hillel’s program, “21st Century Anti-Semitism: Exploring Hate, Oppression and Identity.” Washington University rising junior Orly Einhorn, who spearheaded the...
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — A long-awaited construction project at our Manhattan synagogue, Ansche Chesed, is about to begin. Off in the distance we can glimpse our expanded lobby with improved safety and disability access, our renewed social hall,...
This article first appeared on Alma.
After being sent home from school, a life of relative COVID-ignorant bliss, I arrived in the ravaging chaos of the pandemic. My mother — the head of infection control and epidemiology for the largest public hospital...
(JTA) — Do you want to know one small but powerful way we could make Jewish life more inclusive?
Stop telling fat people about your diet and asking if they’d like to join you.
Last year I launched Fat Torah, with the aim of confronting weight stigma...
In 2006, the Missouri legislature unanimously passed SB 1189 which created a "Holocaust Education and Awareness Commission."
The goal of the commission is to promote Holocaust education and awareness in Missouri, "in order to encourage understanding...
This article first appeared on Kveller.
On Thursday evening, as I was just about to close my computer, I saw the news alert from The New York Times: “Breaking News: At least 15 people are dead and dozens are injured after a stampede at a religious...
(JTA) — When I was very young, what motivated me to go to shul on Shabbat morning was the fire station two houses away from the synagogue.
My dad was the rabbi of the only congregation in Annapolis, Maryland, and shul attendance was a family affair....
Ever since I read Mr. Marty Rochester’s Op-Ed: “Oy vey: The excesses of identity politics,” I can’t get it out of my mind. My husband and I both grew up in St. Louis but currently live outside Chicago. I work at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law...
RACHEL BRAY-SPEZIA, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 28, 2021
As a busy parent, my to-do list is a mile long, from A to Z – Z being Zoom meetings, of course.
Many of the tasks on my list are things I do for others: picking up a few groceries for my grandmother; taking my son to see his pediatrician; shopping...
This article originally appeared on Kveller.
What do bonfires, weddings and carob have in common? They’re all connected to the holiday of Lag b’Omer.
While you may have never heard of this holiday, Lag b’Omer is popular and widely beloved...
(JTA) — April 29 marks the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau, the longest-operating Nazi concentration camp. A lesser-known part of that day is that Japanese-American troops played a key role in the liberation of Dachau and its satellite...
We are living at a time when both parties are telling us how bad things are.
Recall that Donald Trump’s 2016 inaugural address was characterized by the media as bleak, unusually dark and focused on addressing what Trump called “American carnage,”...
