42 Jewish Authors Slam Jewish Book Council for ‘Bias Toward Centering Israeli and Zionist...
Dozens of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish authors are criticizing the Jewish Book Council, a historic literary group, for what they said was a “bias...
For Christians, King David Is a Hero … And Now, a Streaming TV Star
Sarah Ogince | JNS
A humble childhood, a meteoric rise to power, a fatal love affair, a confrontation with a giant.
It’s no surprise that the...
Jewish Basketball Legend Amar’e Stoudemire to Be Inducted Into Basketball Hall of Fame
Amar’e Stoudemire, the American-Israeli basketball star who became a devout convert to Judaism after retiring, is reportedly headed to the hall of fame.
Stoudemire will...
A Lost Novel From 1943 Predicted the Holocaust. Now, It Has Been Recovered.
As World War II raged in Europe, Friedrich Torberg, an Austrian Jew who fled for the United States in 1940, imagined what was befalling...
National Library of Israel Reveals Iranian Haggadah With Persian Poem
The National Library of Israel has uncovered a rare handwritten Passover Haggadah published in the 1880s containing a Judeo-Persian poem dedicated to Lady Judith...
In Broadway’s ‘Giant,’ Roald Dahl Is a Warped Messenger for a Vital Debate About...
Andrew Silow-Carroll | JTA
Roald Dahl is a terrible messenger for a serious conversation about Jews and Israel.
Which is part of what makes “Giant,” the...
Matzah Pizza, Miriam and a ‘HUG-Gadah’ Star in New Children’s Books for Passover in...
Penny Schwartz | JTA
Welcoming the stranger — and opening one’s home to guests at the seder — is a defining theme of Passover, the...
‘Children Shaped Clay 15,000 Years Ago in Israel’
An Israeli university announced on Wednesday that archaeologists have uncovered the earliest known clay ornaments in Southwest Asia, dating back 15,000 years in modern-day...
Jew-FK Jr.’: Meet the Connecticut Dad and Children’s Book Author Who Won a JFK...
Since he was 22, Andrew Ginsburg has been inundated with comments that he resembles the late John F. Kennedy Jr.
Now 46, he says those...
For Chinese-Speaking Jews in New York, ‘Mazel Tofu’ Offers a New Kind of Community
Jackie Hajdenberg | JTA
A YouTuber, a theater consultant and an accordionist walk into a kosher Chinese restaurant.
It’s not the setup to a Borscht Belt...