Article Highlights Jewish Culture Festivals in Europe

By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Published on May 27, 2012

Jewish Institutions take Part in European Night of the Museums Saturday Night

By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Published on May 17, 2012

Life in Oswiecim

By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Published on May 11, 2012

List of Jewish Culture, Arts, Film Etc Festivals in Europe

By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Published on April 19, 2012

Shavuot Gets Hip

By Sue Fishkoff
Published on June 9, 2005

Is Shavuot becoming hip? The holiday, which begins June 12, may be one of Judaism's three major festivals, but it had never caught on in America like its more popular cousins, Passover and Sukkot.

The tradition of tikkun l'eil Shavuot, the all-night study session that marks the commemoration of God's giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai, is celebrated by most Orthodox Jews and many Conservative congregations. But for many unaffiliated and non-Orthodox Jews, the holiday has gone fairly unnoticed.

Until recently.

New Channel BeamsJewish Programming

By Eric Silver
Published on May 15, 2003

The soap opera, argues Shlomo Ben-Zvi, is the most Jewish of all television formats.

Do Film Festivals Build Jewish Identity?

By Joe Berkofsky
Published on February 6, 2003

The study, "Can Watching a Movie Lead to Greater Jewish Affiliation?" insists that the burgeoning Jewish film festival scene holds not only big box-office potential, but the possibility of moving unaffiliated Jews "along the continuum of Jewish involvement."

7 Days In Arts

Published on September 5, 2002

7 Days In The Arts

Reading Into the Holidays

By Denise Berger
Published on August 29, 2002

A few years ago, Aish HaTorah Rabbi Yaacov Deyo (of SpeedDating fame) presented me with a book before Rosh Hashana. With this simple, gracious gesture he changed forever the way I relate to what can be the most daunting time on the Jewish calendar.