Culture

Music

David Broza: This Concert Will Be Good

Food

A Pocket Culinary Tour Through Israel

Music

Don’t Turn Your Nose Up at Cabbage

Film & Television

Things to Do During Heritage Month

Columns

‘Refusenik’ Still Defines Her

By:

Marina Furman, JE Feature

I have now lived in freedom for almost half of my life but who I am as a person, as a parent and a Jew will always be defined by the word “refusenik.”

Editorials

A Historic Moment

Twenty-five years ago this week, some 250,000 Jews descended on Washington to demand freedom for their brothers and sisters trapped in the Soviet Union.

Columns

How the Soviet Jewry Movement Changed My Life

By:

Josh Shapiro

I’ve often been asked why I chose a career in public service and what the impetus was for such a life decision.

Food

Bubbling Cauldron of Oil

It makes for the best Chanukah foods ever

By:

Eileen Goltz | JE Feature

This is one of those columns where calories don’t count and your commitment to eating healthier just has to take a vacation. It’s Chanukah. Let the frying begin.

Torah

Brotherhood’s Apex: Soviet Jewry March

Vayeshev, Genesis 37:1-40:23

By:

Rabbi Mark Robbins

Twenty-five years after freedom, our local Russian-speaking Jewish community remains strikingly separate — culturally, educationally, religiously and geographically. It’s time for Philadelphians to take the next step in bringing brothers together.