It is not an exaggeration to say that every Jewish person has a family story rooted in persecution. The roots of Judaism are synonymous with adaptation, expulsion, and regrowth. Even though these ...

Thanks for your question. Before I answer, let tell you about the expression “luck of the Irish,” because it doesn’t mean what people think it means. It may not be the case so much now, but in ...

When I was young, my mom brought me with her to a shiva house for a woman whose husband had died. I didn’t really know the woman or her husband, but for some reason, when I got there, I decided to ...

Ah, Hollywood. The land of glitz, glamour, and, apparently, rewriting history for future generations. The latest example? The Oscar-winning “No Other Land,” a film that presents itself as hard-hitting ...

My friend has been crying endless tears for Israel. She is a proud American Reform Jew who has been overcome with grief since October 7. She’s a redhead, who’s been especially hit hard by the tragic ...

A week ago, I found out I had made a list. Not a list of honors or achievements, but a list of Canadian-Israeli soldiers, published in an article that has been widely condemned as a hit piece against ...

Being a proud Jew in Hollywood isn’t easy these days, especially in a time when the best documentary at the Oscars goes to a pro-Palestinian film, where the filmmakers call what is happening in Gaza ...

We just discovered that the Bibas bodies have been unburied for over a year. What does Jewish law say about when to bury a body and why is it this way? Thanks for your question. Usually, when someone ...

Tu B’Shvat is an all year long celebration when you’re working farmland, as Hasidic Jew Yisroel Bass does at the Yiddish Farm in Upstate New York. The farm was founded in order to “expand the role of ...

“I had a conversation with our former CFO, Mark Graf, and I asked him point blank, ‘Am I limited in how far I can go because of my religious observance?’ And he just flat out immediately was like, ...

As the world continues to turn against Jews, with unprecedented hatred and gaslighting in our lifetimes, one of the most absurd lies that antisemites tell about Jews is that we are invaders or ...

Growing up as a secular American girl in the 80s, I dreamed of a handsome prince/Patrick Dempsey lookalike who would sweep me off my feet to live happily ever after, like all the books and movies I ...