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Nets star Kyrie Irving says he’s more focused on the Israel-Gaza conflict than basketball right now

May 16, 2021Sara Wood

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

Rabbi Stephen Slater talks a lot about God. He credits his Baptist missionary parents.

May 13, 2021Sara Wood

(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.

May 13, 2021Sara Wood

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

Most children of intermarriage are being raised Jewish. Their parents hope Jewish institutions notice.

May 13, 2021Sara Wood

(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 […]

Yeshiva Boys Choir’s Greatest Hits

January 16, 2020David Rutman

Photo Credit: Jewish Press People constantly ask singer, composer, and producer Eli Gerstner for the date of his next album release. His answer is always the same: “On Chanukah.” One small detail he makes sure to omit: Chanukah of which year. Gerstner, who 15 years ago revolutionized Jewish music by introducing multi-layered lushness, a pop […]

City Bans Throwing Snowballs: The Wussification Of Our Kids Continues

December 8, 2019December 9, 2019David Rutman

Photo Credit: public {Originally posted to The Lid website} “No person shall throw or shoot any object, arrow, stone, snowball or other missile or projectile, by hand or by any other means, at any other person or at, in or into any building, street, sidewalk, alley, highway, park, playground or other public place within the […]

Daf Yomi

October 6, 2019October 10, 2019David Rutman

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Kishka – Stuffed Derma‘Intestines Are Not Meat’(Me’ilah 20b) Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Stuffed kishka is an integral part of the Shabbos day meal in many homes. Many, therefore, may be surprised to learn that Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel said, […]

Sorry Tale of Two Photos

October 6, 2019October 10, 2019Mark Hershlag

Photo Credit: Twitter A photo of a 12-year-old Jewish boy in Australia being bullied to kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate. {Originally posted to the JNS website} As visitors to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem wind their way through the main exhibition, they are confronted by a series of unsettling photographs from […]

5,000-Year Old City, Largest in Ancient Israel, Exposed in Sharon Valley

June 6, 2019October 10, 2019David Rutman

Photo Credit: Assaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities AuthorityAssaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities Authority Aerial photograph of the Sharon valleyexcavation site. Widespread excavations at the En Esur (Ein Asawir) archaeological site, located near Wadi Ara, a major artery that stretches from Hadera to Afula in the northern Sharon valley, reveal a planned city from the Bronze Age (end […]