Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Swiss anti-Islam vote draws protests from Jews and Christians
By Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTA
Swiss voters may have been taking aim at Islam, but Jewish and Catholic leaders are among those crying . . .
Thursday, December 3, 2009
And The Walls Come Tumbling Down
By Ben Harris, JTA
In the final days of September, Alan Grabinsky and Paul Feldman moved into an apartment on a quiet circle in Mexico City’s Condesa neighborhood, . . .
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Diego Rivera, Landsman?
By Ben Harris, JTA
To most of the world, Diego Rivera is seen as one of the greats of Mexican art, the creator of legendary murals that adorn the walls of national . . .
Thursday, November 19, 2009
The change has come to Jewish life in Eastern Europe
By Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTA
Covering the development of Jewish life in Europe in the 20 years since the fall of communism, I have witnessed many landmark . . .
Monday, October 12, 2009
Italian Jews launch new Jewish newspaper—for non-Jews
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTA
When Italy’s first national Jewish newspaper launches this month, Italy will get what few Jewish communities around the world offer: a Jewish . . .
Thursday, April 2, 2009
A Vineyard Blooms in the Negev
By Adam Wills
“It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested,” David Ben-Gurion said more than 50 years ago.
Israel’s . . .
Friday, November 7, 2008
Exploring what makes up the Jewish tapestry
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
We've all played the "Jewish geography" game -- you know, questioning someone we've only just met in order to discover common Jewish connections, . . .
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Czech Republic surprises with Jewish treasures
By Jay Firestone
Birthplace of Theodore Herzl, Franz Kafka and Sigmund Freud, this increasingly progressive country is trying to shed the specter of the Nazi and . . .
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Propaganda film disguised horrors of Terezin
By Ron Feinberg
It's in the nearby city of Terezin that one of the most unique, if bizarre stories of the period can be found. And it's all captured in the grainy . . .
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Help is here for planning a ceremony in Israel
By Judith Broder Sellner
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Thursday, June 5, 2008
A light unto the Nation (inside the historic Touro Synagogue)
By Victor Wishna
The Maccabees' legendary oil may have burned for eight days and nights, but at the Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., the low-wattage bulb in the ner . . .
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Finding Judaism in the great outdoors
By Sue Fishkoff
Two rabbis are helping Jews find a path to Judaism off the beaten track. Each has written a new guidebook to take along on that . . .
Sunday, May 11, 2008
VIDEO: Moroccan Jewish sacred singing
By Vanessa Paloma
Video of Moroccan Jewish sacred . . .
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Pico-Olympic traffic plan on hold after judge’s decision
By Amy Klein
City of Los Angeles has been ordered to conduct a new environmental impact report (EIR) before implementing the Pico-Olympic traffic . . .
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Jewish life in the City of Lights
By Danielle Berrin
Calendar Girl Danielle Berrin finds herself in Paris for . . .
Thursday, May 1, 2008
I am now the voice of my parents
By Julie Kohner
There was never a time in my life when I did not know about the Holocaust.In a strange way, I think I just took the idea of this for granted. . . .
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Some retirees make aliyah to San Miguel de Allende
By Buzzy Gordon
A growing number of American Jews have chosen to retire to Mexico. Two of the largest expatriate communities, in San Miguel de Allende and Ajijic; . . .
Thursday, April 24, 2008
L.A. Jewish girl joins the African Jewish matzah dance
By Nili Salem
My Pesach preparation, like that of so many Americans, usually involves walking to my local supermarket and loading a cart full of Manischewitz . . .
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Mom and daughter climb ev’ry mountain
By Dan Goldberg
For Cheryl and Nikki Bart, ain't no mountain high enough. Seven years after their first adventure in Nepal, the Barts are heading back to Katmandu . . .
Friday, March 7, 2008
Oaxaca is a dreamy stop down Mexico way
By Roberto Loiederman
If you're heading down Mexico way, all the way down to Oaxaca, you should know about a bed and breakfast there called Casa Machaya. The name is a sly . . .
Thursday, January 31, 2008
‘Emerald Isle’ beckons Jews
By Peter Rothholz
There is a saying that in Ireland there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet.
On our visit we experienced a tangible expression of . . .
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Briefs: UC ‘study in Israel’ program draws Sacramento attention; Gold officially the man at the Fede
The effort to reinstate the University of California's study in Israel program entered the state Legislature last . . .
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Tahitian Jews make do on their island paradise
By Ben Frank
Tahiti's community of some 200 Jews is among the farthest flung in the . . .
Thursday, December 20, 2007
The Dead Sea Scrolls . . . via La Jolla
By Rob Eshman
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