Author: David Rutman

(JTA) — It’s well known that the celebrated filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen come from a Jewish family in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. They’ve included Jewish characters in their films throughout their long career, from the titular one in “Barton Fink” to the bookie Bernie Bernbaum in “Miller’s Crossing” to perhaps the most famous Jewish […]

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This recipe originally appeared on The Nosher. My mom serves matzah ball soup every Friday night (#momgoals), and she’s always made it in the oven. When I left home and found myself without my weekly fix, I called her for the recipe and followed suit. I didn’t realize that this was unusual until I was […]

This story originally appeared on Alma. “Did you see the email?” My Jewish friend was typing her response. I was checking my heart rate. “Not surprising. Also, like, not really something you want to see on your lunch break,” she texted back. We were talking about the latest anti-Semitic hate crime that occurred on campus: […]

This story originally appeared on Kveller. Last month, when my teenage daughter, Elana, told me she had something important to discuss, I assumed she wanted something any typical suburban teen might want: a later curfew or a new iPhone. Instead, to my horror, she told me she wanted a nose job. She said she’d felt […]

(JTA) — Andrea Wedner remembers Oct. 27, 2018 in detail. She picked up her mother, Rose Mallinger, to go to Shabbat services at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, a quiet neighborhood in Pittsburgh. They got there early, as they liked to do, and talked with fellow synagogue members before the service started […]