As a candidate he was shunned by most of the Jewish community, yet Trump has surrounded himself with a small but loyal group of Jewish supporters, donors and confidants. For those celebrating and for ...

Before Anita Diamant wrote herself into Jewish literary stardom with her best-selling and much-loved novel “The Red Tent,” she was already an accomplished writer of both fiction and non-fiction. One ...

Over the past 100 years, Jews have experienced extraordinary elements of triumph and periods of significant tragedy. It represents a time frame of profound contradictions and challenges to the global ...

We're nearly at the end of Hanukkah, the festival of lights, and several heroes from both Marvel and DC are celebrating by lighting the menorah and eating delicious latkes. In celebration of the ...

Howard Feigenbaum plans to celebrate Hanukkah this year with his family “the way we always do” – going to synagogue, lighting the family menorah, saying prayers, making his favorite potato latkes. “We ...

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After graduating from college decades ago, I took my meager savings and went off to Paris. I wandered all over the city and happened upon a Jewish district with a lot of ethnic restaurants. I looked ...

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FUNNY, BUT I DO LOOK JEWISH, at least to myself, and more and more so as the years go by. I’m fairly sure I didn’t always look Jewish, not when I was a boy, or possibly even when a young man, though I ...

I was born and raised into an ethnically, culturally and religiously rich Jewish family. My father is an orthodox rabbi, the child of Holocaust survivors. My mother is religiously relaxed, the child ...