The lighting of the menorah during Chanukah each year symbolizes for Jewish people finding light in darkness, and then continuing to spread that light beyond themselves. Chanukah is deeply rooted ...

A conversation with author Tova Mirvis, writer-in-residence of the Jewish Book Council’s new initiative Nu Reads.  Jewish ...

Terry LaBan is a Philadelphia-based cartoonist who has published comic book series, had internationally syndicated strips and, at the end of 2024, published “Mendel the Mess-Up,” a children’s graphic ...

This season’s children’s titles bring poetry, humor, Jewish wisdom — and even a kitten or two — to the holiday bookshelf.

The Jewish Museum is one of the premier centers to learn about Jewish history, culture, art, and storytelling in New York City. Following a significant expansion, the Jewish Museum recently debuted a ...

Sometimes the most Jewish thing we can do is to sit quietly with children in their fear, writes the head of the Jewish ...

With the present dangers confronting the Jewish people, we are desperately in need of more stories about Jewish heroism. For ...

TV and film have long excelled at processing Jewish trauma. But as ‘Nobody Wants This’ demonstrates, there’s also another way. By Rachel Israel One of the essential movies of my coming of age was ...

Jordan Wax, a Santa Fe-based performer and composer of Yiddish and New Mexican regional music, has just released a record of original secular Yiddish children’s songs. When asked why, he didn’t skip a ...

Contrary to popular tradition, Jesus was not born in a stable! Why? Because the ‘manger’ where he was laid was at the bottom ...

The following contains light spoilers for the Netflix show Long Story Short. The Schwooper family, the central figures in the new animated Netflix series Long Story Short, are diverse and unique — ...

We meet the Schwooper family — whose name is a portmanteau of Schwartz and Cooper — on a motorcade to a burial in 1996. For many Jews, it may feel like a homecoming. The matriarch, Naomi, is bereaved ...