Thursday, September 10, 2009
Amid hedonistic indulgence, Jews search for meaning at Burning Man
By Ben Harris, JTA
At first they came slowly, perhaps a half-dozen sitting cross-legged in a circle waiting for Kabbalat Shabbat services to begin.. . .
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
2 Days in Bethlehem
By Danielle Berrin
Daoud Nassar is talking to a large group of Jews gathered on his 100-acre farm in the West Bank, which lies southwest of his native Bethlehem. Nassar. . .
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
A long time ago, in a kibbutz far away . . .
By Gary Wexler
Yoav was my kibbutz brother, secular and an ardent Zionist. He had an encyclopedic mind that could recite in detail kibbutz history, lore and. . .
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Researcher tracing Jewish genes meets the Kohanim of Africa [VIDEO]
By Peter Ephross
Dr. David B. Goldstein from Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy talks about tracking the genetic history of the ancient Jewish priesthood. . .
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Allosemitism (noun)—Jews as the perpetual ‘other’
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
How to define what is "Jewish" provides endless fodder for debate in post-Holocaust, post-communist Europe. Is there, as the concept of allosemitism. . .
Monday, August 4, 2008
Key dates in recent Chinese Jewish history
By Alison Klayman
From the opening of the first synagogue in Shanghai to the start of diplomatic relations between Israel and China, some key dates in Chinese Jewish. . .
Monday, August 4, 2008
Your guide to Jewish Beijing
By Alison Klayman
Beijing has had an organized Jewish community since the late 1970s, the city's congregations cooperate well and Jews coming for the Olympics will. . .
Monday, August 4, 2008
Recalling Shanghai’s Jewish past
By Alison Klayman
More than 20,000 European Jews fleeing the Nazis found a home in Shanghai, many thanks to a Chinese diplomat in Austria. Honors for Ho Fengshan and a. . .
Sunday, August 3, 2008
VIDEO: What do the Chinese think of Jews?
By Alison Klayman
China correspondent Alison Klayman goes out to Houhai lake to ask the question: What do Beijingers think of the Jews?. . .
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Munich massacre survivor still carries Olympic scars
By Chanan Tigay
Thirty-six years on, Munich survivor Dan Alon still carries the scars of the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games, which he and. . .
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Olympics 2008: Swimmers lead U.S. Jewish contingent
By Marc Brodsky
The athletes who make up the U.S. Jewish contingent headed to China, a mix of veterans and newcomers, have a decent chance of winning a medal or. . .
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Hot pot dinner bonds two very different ‘believers’ in China
By Alison Klayman
Hot pot meals are popular in China and a double problem for kosher vegetarians.. . .
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Southland Olympians go for the gold
By Lee Barnathan
Perhaps the most famous Jewish competitor with ties to the Southland this year is swimmer Dara Torres, who is competing in an unprecedented fifth. . .
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Rabbi reports from Saudi interfaith conclave: We must seize the moment
By Rabbi David Rosen
The highest authority in the very heartland of Islam has taken a lead in interfaith outreach, whatever his motives might be, with the declared. . .
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Freshly-ordained Ugandan rabbi gets ball rolling on returning home
By Roberto Loiederman
Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, the first black sub-Saharan rabbi ordained at an American rabbinical school, has had a very busy time since returning to Uganda. . .
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
What’s so good about Israel? Let me tell you!
By Shira Kaplan
Whether it is the imprint of the Israel Defense Forces' unit cohesion, the Jewish sense of a shared destiny or the remnants of a socialist system,. . .
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
In which the writer discovers Nextbook’s new read on culture
By Tom Tugend
"A man should live, if only to satisfy his curiosity." The Yiddish proverb, tacked to the wall of my study, came to mind when curiosity -- and the. . .
Thursday, June 5, 2008
S.F.‘s new Contemporary Jewish Museum meshes art, ideas and architecture
By Sue Fishkoff
"We want people to ask questions -- what does 'contemporary' mean?"
-- Connie Wolf, Executive Director, Contemporary Jewish Museum. . .
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Preschool education gets a new Italian accent
By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Teachers and administrators from Jewish preschools in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Israel traveled to Italy to learn about the Reggio Emilia. . .
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Artists channel Genesis and Kabbalah in new museum’s inaugural exhibit
By Joe Eskenazi
The San Francisco museum is most similar to The Jewish Museum in New York in terms of focus, scale and public programming. But while the latter is a. . .
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 hike. . .
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Tale of the ‘Stranger’ leaps from book to musical
By Anita K. Kantrowitz
It was 1985, and many of the Ethiopian Jews who'd been airlifted from Sudan were being housed in a hotel in Netanya, Israel. When writer Sonia. . .
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Jazz: Made in New Orleans
By Tom Teicholz
Preservation Hall's formula was simple and is followed to this day: No reservations, no food, just music in a small room. Shows began at 8 p.m. Each. . .
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
California kids deserve better
By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
The Governator's proposed education budget is inadequate. . .
