What event could possibly draw secular and religious Jews, obsessive hummus devotees and Jewish mother in-law experts? An opportunity to learn how to expertly opine on Jewish topics online. The Nefesh ...

A new weapon in the battle for that free exchange of ideas has been a burgeoning culture of American Jewish blogs devoted to Israeli-Arab peace. Tikun Olam (my own blog) and Muzzlewatch broke several ...

, the Jewish immigrant writer from Poland, is most famous for Bread Givers (1925), her tenement story of hard life on the Lower East Side. But she also harbored a lesser-known rich, snarky, and dark ...

“Dry Bones” and “Lazer Beams were the big winners in this year s Jewish and Israel Blog Awards. “Dry Bones,” started as a cartoon in 1973 by 69-year-old Yaakov Kirschen, a Brooklyn-born new immigrant ...

Ninety years ago, in a Europe beginning to succumb to the rise of Nazism and the complicit silence in the face of intolerance, the World Jewish Congress was born in Geneva. The or ...

Hanukkah — the one time when we can eat everything deep fried and smothered in oil with absolutely zero guilt, because we’re literally commanded to do it. But my favorite thing about Hanukkah’s ...

I divorced Israel in September of 2008, about nine years after making aliyah (immigration to Israel). ” title=”all so saddened me, like miscarriages that set me ...

JERUSALEM — They use names like Urban Kvetch, My Shrapnel, What War Zone? and Cannibis Chasidis — monikers under which they write on the internet. In a crowded hall in Jerusalem’s Givat Shaul ...

I’m the “default” blog for the new weekly Havel Havelim, the international Jewish blog round-up aka carnival. In principle, Havel Havelim is a floating blog carnival hosted by various Jewish and ...

JB Pritzker, America’s first Jewish president. It sounds crazy, I know. This is not meant to be an endorsement but rather an ...