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September 10, 2017, 3:37 pm
Renewal in Boston’s North End
A city old enough to have a rich history beneath its present day exterior, and young enough to be forever becoming
By Rachel Sharansky Danziger
September 6, 2017, 12:40 pm
Rescinding DACA and Jewish history
The Dreamers' fate will indicate how dark America's immediate discriminatory path
By Jack Schwartz
August 25, 2017, 1:14 pm
Trump a hero of Jewish history?
The president can transform his legacy by using his exclusive power to change US policy on Jerusalem's status
By Nathan Lewin
Rabbi Darren Levine leading a youth service at Tamid Downtown Synagogue in New York. (Courtesy)
June 2, 2017, 5:52 am
Basketball dads help Manhattan Jewish congregation score historic church space
A chance courtside meeting is a slam dunk for interfaith cooperation as Trinity Church shares its 250-year-old chapel with Tamid Downtown Synagogue
By Cathryn J. Prince
Paul Simon, left, with partner Art Garfunkel in 1964. (Don Hunstein)
April 28, 2017, 2:27 pm
Here’s to you, Mr. Simon — homage to Jewish pop legend opens in LA
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame exhibit focuses on celebrated songwriter's cultural and social impact -- the ‘Graceland’ chapter, the TV and movies, the trailblazing collaborations
By Alex Suskind
Ben Franklin's proposed design for the Great Seal of the United States included Moses parting the Red Sea. (Public domain)
April 16, 2017, 12:06 pm
When Moses almost parted the Red Sea on the Great Seal of the United States
New book contends Hebrew prophets influenced the Puritans who established America -- and the patriots who led it to independence
By Rich Tenorio
The fall of Adam and Eve as depicted in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo (Wikipedia / Public Domain)
April 15, 2017, 2:49 am
On journey to Eden, Bruce Feiler discovers the Creation of Man is really an egalitarian tale
Investigating how the biblical story was 'weaponized' to subjugate women, bestselling author travels to Iraq, the Vatican... and through history
By Rich Tenorio
Janice Rothschild Blumberg remembers when her Atlanta synagogue was bombed in 1958 by white supremacists and sees the same hatred still festering. (Bill Rothschild)
March 25, 2017, 5:18 am
60 years after synagogue bombing, an Atlanta rebbetzin remembers her friends Martin and Coretta
Spate of threats against JCCs eerily reminded Janice Rothschild Blumberg of when her temple was targeted during the civil rights movement
By Ben Sales
Orville (L), Katharine and Wilbur Wright, 1909. (Photo: Bain Collection/Library of Congress)
March 15, 2017, 12:58 am
Writer to right passage on Wright’s wrong
Famed historian David McCullough is quick to amend an excerpt describing anti-Semitic remarks by sister of fathers of flight
By Marshall Weiss
An inset of the autobiographical manuscripts of Luis de Carvajal the Younger, circa 1595, with devotional manuscripts. (Courtesy of the Government of Mexico)
December 18, 2016, 11:42 pm
Lost diary of tortured Mexican ‘converso’ features in early-American Jewish exhibit
Manuscript by Luis de Carvajal was missing for 75 years until spotted by a keen-eyed collector. Now it joins others on display at the New-York Historical Society
By Penny Schwartz
Jessica Steinberg reads 'Not This Turkey' to her kids. (Courtesy Jessica Steinberg)
November 7, 2016, 2:49 pm
Gobble up this real-life Jewish Thanksgiving story
In her debut children's book, Times of Israel writer Jessica Steinberg celebrates identity, diversity and the immigrant experience through the lens of one of America's most beloved holidays
By Penny Schwartz
A bronze statue of the Satanic icon Baphomet, currently residing in a shed outside The Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts (Courtesy)
October 26, 2016, 4:36 pm
In haunted Salem, a Jewish church founder preaches the art of ‘Satanic’ social change
At a former funeral home in a town inextricably linked to witchcraft, secular Jew Malcolm Jarry opens a new heaquarters for his Satanic Temple, a controversial movement with up to 50,000 members worldwide
By Matt Lebovic
Performer Joshua Rudy appears in King Richard's Faire as the master-at-arms in Carver, Massachusetts, September 24, 2016 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
October 17, 2016, 10:43 pm
For ‘Renaissance’ Jews, all the world’s a joust
From coast to coast, Jews fill the ranks of elaborate outdoor festival productions, finding connections between Judaism and their penchant for reenacting days of yore
By Matt Lebovic
William Jennings Bryan giving a speech during his 1908 presidential campaign. (Public domain)
August 30, 2016, 7:51 pm
In US elections, a history of anti-Semitism
Both Trump and Clinton currently stand accused of bigotry, but from the Civil War era through to the 1990s, there were other presidential candidates who unapologetically denigrated Jews. A survey of their rhetoric and their mixed results
By Chad Weisman
Baseball writer Dan Schlossberg, left, with the former Atlanta Brave and Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz. (Courtesy of Dan Schlossberg/via JTA)
August 20, 2016, 2:23 am
3 baseball books from veteran Jewish observers of the game
Whether you're enjoying the air conditioning or hanging out in the dugout, catch these titles on American's favorite pastime
By Hillel Kuttler
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