3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1274+ words) At the Jewish Museum Frankfurt in the restored and expanded Rothschild Palais, visitors explore Jewish history and culture from around 1800 to the present, following the lives of Frankfurt’s Jewish citizens through periods of emancipation, innovation, destruction, and renewal. At the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1098+ words) Inclusion is not a trend. Inclusion is a commandment — and a condition for Jewish survival. Our sacred texts demand that we honor individuals, seek to understand before being understood, make conversations and religious practice accessible to all, and create communities…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (779+ words) My former first grade teacher Harriet Siegel (and biggest Jewish influence in my life) had gifted me an annual membership. I thought it was very nice of her. I’d never thought of joining Hadassah. But I was busy: a lawyer,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (660+ words) Bevan Lee’s Australian television series, A Place To Call Home, definitely strikes a chord. A vibrant family drama consisting of 67 episodes, it is now available on the Amazon Prime platform. I was inexorably drawn into it from the very start....

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (870+ words) We are not just a united nation. We are a nation of one, so interconnected that we are like a single person. Wait. Is that not discriminatory? Are we really saying that Jews are different from everyone else? The Torah…...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago   (556+ words) I would like to thank the esteemed Joanna Yamakami, Resnicow and Associates, for her support and guidance. The mansion occupies a lot measuring approximately 102 by 100 feet, about the same area as two regulation NBA basketball courts placed side by side,…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1039+ words) I have never prayed in the synagogue in Dieren, the Netherlands. I don’t know the rabbi. I’ve never attended a Shabbat service there or celebrated a holiday with its congregation. I don’t receive its emails or know the people who…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (798+ words) When I think back to where I was exactly 20 years ago this week, it’s blurry. The memories are a muddle of holidays with cousins and summer camps. Especially when it comes to peak summer. Okay, okay, mayyyyybe some of those…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (1017+ words) What should a Jewish Federation do when it is building — or rebuilding — a Jewish community organization from the ground up? Not assume. Not decide behind closed doors. Not simply reproduce programs that worked somewhere else. Listen to the people we…...

1+ mon, 2+ hour ago   (563+ words) The Saint John Jewish Historical Museum marked a significant milestone on Sunday, June 28, celebrating its 40th anniversary as a guardian of Jewish heritage in Atlantic Canada. Located in an elegant late-Victorian mansion at 91 Leinster Street in Saint John, New Brunswick, the…...