When I was growing up, raised by Reform Jewish parents in a secular community in Columbia, Md., my sister and I used to ask each other, “Are you Jewish first or American first?” In truth, the hyphen could have gone one way or the other, Jewish-American or American-Jewish, depending upon the circumstances each one of …
Ashkenazi Jews are people descended from the Jewish population of Central and Eastern Europe. The population of the Ashkenazi Jews...
Show me your shirt and I will tell you who you are, they say.
HAPPY JEW YEAR!
Hanukah eve, 25 Kislev 5623 – 1862. A heavy snow blister was raging outside, while the town’s Jews gathered in their homes, around the Hanukia. Scents of Museum of the Jewish People
What are the different types of angels in Judaism? Here's a look at who's who among Jewish angels ...
Prosthetic nose and beard appliance.
Judaism has a rich tradition of magic that dates back to the Hebrew Bible, though many modern Jews dismiss it as "irrational folklore."
Our I am a Jew Poster is a great educational resource that will help you create relevant and engaging Religious Studies classrooms.
A new survey by the Pew Center found that a growing number of Jews identify as nonreligious and are marrying non-Jews. And despite the shift in religious affiliation, the vast majority say they are proud to be Jewish.
If you haven’t spent a Christmas in San Francisco, you’ve been missing something special. December 25th might just be one of my top five favorite days of the year in this city.
From the blog of Dani Ishai Behan at The Times of Israel
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The number of countries where Jews faced harassment rose to a seven-year high in 2013, according to new study.
Phylacteries. Except, no Jew calls them that. They're tefillin, and Jews are commanded to wrap themselves in them before morning prayer. They're a part of my morning ritual. Here's what that looks like.
How I as a teenage girl defied my family's Jewish tradition.
Ashkenazi Jews are a Jewish ethnic group who have their earliest ancestors from the indigenous tribes of Israel…at least on one side of the family tree. A study published in 2013 in Nature Communications has shown their maternal lineage comes from a different, and possibly unexpected, source.
These Shabbat Sensroy Cards are the perfect calm and fun Shabbat toddler activity! Even my big kids enjoyed feeling the different textures and making rubbings. Use this Shabbat Sensory Cards activity while you are making Shabbat dinner Friday afternoon or for a lovely Shabbat afternoon activity on Saturday. Or really, anytime you want to bring the …
An eclectic introduction to some of the world’s most misunderstood people
Huge crowds were pictured in Borough Park for the funeral of The Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal who died aged 95 on Monday in New York City surrounded by his family.
Make plov, a delicious Bukharan dish, for Rosh Hashanah! If you’re not from the region and you’re not a Near East cultural scholar, chances are that when you think about Persian Jews, you either go all the way back to the Book of Esther, or you think about the Jews of Tehran and Isfahan. But there’s another vast […]
