Austin resident Sam Robinson celebrates becoming a bar mitzvah in his backyard after a power outage at his synagogue from Winter Storm Uri scrapped his plans to read from three Torahs on the bimah. (Photo courtesy of the Robinson family)
David Friedmann’s famous portraits on display at the Ostrava Museum in 2013, eighty years after his first exhibition at Gallery Slatner. The exhibition featured July 1923’s Portfolio No. 4 of Das Schachmeister Turnier in Mährisch Ostrau, the only...
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 16: Aslan Karatsev of Russia plays a backhand in his Men's Singles Quarterfinals match against Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria during day nine of the 2021 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on February 16, 2021 in Melbourne,...
J Associates teams include: (top left, from left to right) Greg Siwak, Brian Oberman, Marty Oberman, Merle Oberman and Marc Oberman; (top right) Ben Tischler, Debbie Kaminer, Ricki Tischler, Manne Palan and Craig Kaminer; (middle left) The Wallis...
Dr. Yaacov Lawrence, a radiation oncologist at Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv, is studying how pancreatic cancer tumors’ resistance to radiation may be affected by their abnormally high appetite for glucose, the most common form of sugar, and other...
TOPSHOT - Former presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) sits in the bleachers on Capitol Hill before Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th US President on January 20, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI...
Rachel Thimangu is a member of the Policy & Advocacy Subcommittee of the Jewish Coalition on Racial Equity. JCRE advises the JCRC on advocacy and programming to create an inclusive and impactful approach for Jewish communal engagement on issues of...
As much as we all miss going out, the virtual "put activity here" is still with us, and we need to all keep making the best of it. That said, the St. Louis Jewish Federation's Young Professional Division (YPD) has an idea to that will hopefully make bring...
Ever since COVID began rapidly spreading, there’s been a lot of confusion as to how standardized tests would be taken and proctored. Now, with COVID cases rising again, colleges will most likely become test optional, prompting the question of whether...
