Vanessa Hidary isn’t your typical Jewish storyteller. The self-proclaimed “Hebrew Mamita” has turned her multicultural experiences into a long and, dare I say, provocative career as a spoken word artist, poet and cultural commentator. Who is Vanessa? According...

This story was first published on My Jewish Learning. With the arrival of Shavuot next week, Jewish wedding season swings into high gear, and rabbis like myself will find ourselves quite busy. Truth be told, while a rabbi’s efforts are highly visible...

There is no documentary subject more urgent and more overexposed than Hitler and the Nazis. So great is the glut of TV shows devoted to the Third Reich that you can take your pick of subgenres — a pop psychological profile of Hitler, National Geographic’s...

(JTA) — Maybe you’re curious about different slices of Jewish culinary history. Maybe you’re a chef looking to add some new Jewish recipes to your repertoire. Or maybe you don’t know where to begin, but you have a craving for learning more about...

The next leader of AIPAC will be Elliot Brandt, who has served as a senior official of the pro-Israel lobby for decades and will take the helm shortly after the November elections, as Israel faces volatile conflicts on multiple fronts. Brandt, currently...

The musician Jonny Greenwood is pushing back on critics who say he should abandon a plan to tour with an Israeli collaborator because of the Israel-Hamas war. Greenwood and Dudu Tassa, an Israeli rock star from a prominent Mizrahi musical family,...

The chilling true-story Italian-language drama “Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara” (originally “Rapito”) depicts the strange but true kidnapping of a 6-year-old Jewish boy in Bologna in 1858, on orders of the Pope after hearing that...

Are you the type who can't help but point out every Jewish actor in a TV show? Still captivated by "Shtisel"? Do you binge-watch series that delve into Jewish history like "We Were the Lucky Ones," "The Club," and "The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem"? Are...

(JTA) — Claudia Sheinbaum swept to victory in Mexico’s presidential election Sunday, giving the country of more than 120 million a woman leader and a Jewish leader for the first time. Sheinbaum’s election makes Mexico by far the biggest country...

Aaron Abramson’s American upbringing is apparent when he speaks Hebrew, the language he learned as a teenager after his hippie parents decided to move the family from Seattle to Israel and become religiously Orthodox. His subsequent army service...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that there are “gaps” between the ceasefire terms that President Joe Biden laid out on Friday and what he is prepared to accept. “The proposal that Biden presented is incomplete,” Netanyahu...