Author: Sara Wood

(J. the Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Though she calls herself an “art kid” at her core, Christina Jefferson is no stranger to contact sports. Recently hired by the San Francisco 49ers to lead the NFL team’s diversity and inclusion efforts — a newly created position — Jefferson has a long history […]

(JTA) — There is a remarkable scene toward the end of the new documentary “Final Account,” a collection of eyewitness testimonies of the Nazi regime from elderly Germans and Austrians who remember it (and, to various degrees, were part of it). In the sequence, a former Waffen-SS officer sits down with a group of students […]

(JTA) — Ilyssa Minkus usually spends a chunk of her day on Instagram. That’s where she promotes her business producing party decorations and Jewish-themed crafts. But after Israel began trading bombs with Hamas in Gaza last week, she tried — often without succeeding — to stay away. “I don’t want to go on because I’m just bombarded […]

(JTA) — Jesse Wilks had a bar mitzvah — just not a religious one. His parents raised him in a secular home in New York City but still instilled him with a strong sense of Jewish identity. His mother — who worked for the Workers Circle and is now on the editorial board of the left-wing […]

Nets star Kyrie Irving says he’s more focused on the Israel-Gaza conflict than basketball right now – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

(JTA) — Rabbi Stephen Slater’s rabbinate breaks the mold in all sorts of ways.  Though he graduated from the unaffiliated Hebrew College Rabbinical School, he identifies with the Conservative movement and is the only one of the suburban Boston school’s graduates to join the movement’s rabbinic group. Though Slater came to the rabbinate as the […]

Rihanna posted a message of solidarity for both sides of the Israel-Gaza conflict. It drew plenty of praise – and anger. – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

(JTA) — Years ago, Jodi Bromberg met a woman at a Jewish event who said she had to call 65 rabbis before she found one who would officiate at her wedding to her non-Jewish husband. It was a story Bromberg understood. Bromberg’s wife is Catholic, and earlier in their marriage “it was a struggle,” she […]