Jewish On-Screen Representation Is Largely Stereotypes and Needs More ‘Diversity and Specificity,’ New Study Finds
With a rise in antisemitism in the U.S., a USC study finds that a lack of representation in entertainment can have greater ...
Menorah lighting ceremony on the Mall still has tickets available
Tickets for the lighting on Wednesday are available at NationalMenorah.org. Ticket holders get some special Hanukkah perks, ...
The Times of Israel7d
True Judaism has no disdain or dislike for the mundane and material world
The center of Jewish life is the Jewish home, not the synagogue prayers. Mindless prayer is no prayer, but neither is thought ...
Guatemala authorities raid ultra-orthodox Jewish sect’s compound after abuse reports
Guatemalan authorities search the compound of an extremist ultra-orthodox Jewish sect and take at least 160 minors and 40 ...
Study examines ex-ultra-Orthodox use of social media to cope with their new path in life
The process of disaffiliating from ultra-Orthodox Judaism is accompanied by the loss of social support and the social norms ...
In a calendar rarity, Hanukkah starts on Christmas Day this year
Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day, which has only happened four times since ...
Guatemalan authorities recover minors taken by sect members
Guatemalan authorities on Monday recovered several minors taken from a care center by members of an ultra-orthodox Jewish ...
The Jewish Exponent5d
YOU SHOULD KNOW … Jonah Abrams
Jonah Abrams is a 33-year-old husband and father who was raised in a Reconstructionist family in Elkins Park. He spent many ...
The Jewish Chronicle8d
The rabbi who helped to crack Israel’s Orthodox glass ceiling
In the first year after after graduating from Rabbi Herzl Hefter’s Har’el academy in 2015, she recalled that “about half the ...
Hanukkah 2024 starts on Christmas Day
The simple answer is that the Jewish calendar is based on lunar cycles, and is not in sync with the Gregorian calendar which sets Christmas on Dec. 25. Hanukkah always begins on the 25th day of the ...
EurekAlert!7d
New study examines ex-ultra-Orthodox use of social media to cope with their new path in life
Ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim) who decide to leave the community and disaffiliate are at a stressful crossroads in their life. Many leave close-knit communities for an initially lonely path in a world ...