Everyone has something to say about the Jewish mother, but the Jewish dad is a harder character to pinpoint. In film and television, he often plays the meek foil to his overbearing wife. But for those ...

(JTA) — Philip Roth’s character Alexander Portnoy captured the insecurity of second-generation immigrants in two priceless sentences. “I was asked by the teacher one day to identify a picture of what ...

The five questions made the three contestants shvitz — and longtime fans of the iconic show gave them a zetz on social media. “Jeopardy!” fans have been hard hit by the loss of Alex Trebek, who died ...

Using words like zep and fyce, an Australian Jew named David Eldar became the world Scrabble champion last month in Las Vegas. He was also world champ in 2017 and is now only the second player in ...

A groundbreaking Yiddish puppet theater began in New York in 1925. Photo credit: YIVO. March 2021 marks the second consecutive year in which Passover seder tables will be notably underpopulated as a ...

In the short story “Frieda and Her Golem,” the titular character, a lonely rabbinical student, takes inspiration from the Jewish lore of the golem and builds a companion out of meatloaf (being sure to ...

Rabbi Holtzblatt is a co-senior rabbi at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C. The Torah begins with the world being created by words. “Let there be” is the recurring refrain. God names each ...

JACKSON - When dozens of township residents stepped up to the microphone to speak out against new religious use ordinances, they may have been simply trying to speak out against a potentially ...

Amidst the cacophonous chants of “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free” and “Intifada Revolution” there remains, somehow, a controversy over the intent of these slogans. Pundits either ...

Philip Roth’s character Alexander Portnoy captured the insecurity of second-generation immigrants in two priceless sentences. “I was asked by the teacher one day to identify a picture of what I knew ...