The Forward

For this unconventional Jewish organization, tradition takes a back seat to community

With its mostly online and often atypical programming, Judaism Unbound wants to bring egalitarian Jewish life into the 21st ...
The Forward on MSN

In three centuries of Southern Jewish life in the Big Easy, no easy way to be Jewish

Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries By Nicholas Lemann Liveright, 416 pages, $35 Nicholas Lemann’s Jewish ...
American Enterprise Institute

How Jewish Students Are Re-Drawing the College Map and Migrating to the South (PART ONE)

As campuses across the country reopen this Fall, the familiar rhythms of college life are returning. Freshmen are moving into dorms, quads are buzzing with activity, and families are sending their ...
Sun Sentinel

‘Ask Lois’ your questions on Jewish life in South Florida

I’m a Sun Sentinel reporter who has worked at the paper for more than 20 years. I love to help readers with their queries, from how to repair a walker to why locals have trouble finding good tee-times ...
J. The Jewish News of Northern California

Oakland man’s AI platform unlocks a treasure trove of Iraqi Jewish history

An AI platform is translating and helping search the Iraqi Jewish Archive, transforming access to this historic collection.
WBNG

Construction begins on Cornell’s new $30 million Jewish life center

Members of the Grinspoon Hillel Center at Cornell University recently broke ground on Harkavy Hall, the future home for ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Romania’s secret police trailed a Jewish photographer. Decades later, their files have become a film.

That was enough to trigger surveillance by the notorious secret police of communist Romania, the Securitate. Now, 41 years ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The first and second Jewish mayors of Providence, Rhode Island, just had a shared bar mitzvah

In addition Mayor Brett Smiley, former mayor and congressman David Cicilline was also part of the adult bar mitzvah cohort.