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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 536

Jewish identity

Rabbi Irena Gritsevskaya leads prayers from a new Ukrainian-language siddur. (Courtesy Midreshet Schechter, TALI, Masorti Olami via JTA)
February 28, 2025, 5:40 am
On anniversary of Russia-Ukraine war, isolated Ukrainian Jews translate their prayers
Many in the Jewish community seek translations of sacred texts as a way of fighting for their national and religious identity. A new children’s prayer book marks the latest addition
By Shira Li Bartov
Sinai and Synapses puts science and religion in dialogue. (iStock/ Pict Rider)
April 22, 2024, 9:11 pm
An empirical haggadah reading? How one US group is mixing science and religion
Sinai and Synapses seeks to disprove the theory that spirituality and science are at odds, with programming that admittedly may leave participants with more questions than answers
By Rich Tenorio
Talia Segal, a fourth-year biomedical engineering student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, fears not only for her physical safety but struggles with 'the lack of emotional safety' in the United States. (Katja Ridderbusch)
April 9, 2024, 1:29 am
These US Jews are recalibrating their identity in a tempestuous post-Oct. 7 environment
Concerned about their safety and uncertain about their values and friends, Jewish Americans experience a seismic shift, and a wide range of reactions, as the war in Gaza rages on
By Katja Ridderbusch
The Israeli-American Council, American Jewish Committee, and other Jewish groups unveil an installation in Times Square October 26, 2023, featuring a 222-seat Shabbat table with a chair and place setting for each of the hostages held by Hamas. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)
December 12, 2023, 10:57 am
Insights on how Jewish life has changed (so far) after the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre
Many feel seismic shifts in how they form political alliances and how they express their Judaism in a world that feels scarier, lonelier and, in some ways, more Jewish than ever
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Ryan Lavarnway goes to bat for Team Israel in this undated photo. (Courtesy IAB)
August 31, 2023, 3:15 pm
MLB catcher Ryan Lavarnway pens kid’s book about Team Israel
In ‘Baseball and Belonging,’ the athlete chronicles his life and sports career, telling how a call from Israel’s burgeoning baseball program helped him find his Judaism
By jacob gurvis
Yamina MK Nir Orbach leads a House Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 21, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)
July 14, 2023, 2:01 am
Nir Orbach, ex-MK who toppled previous government, to head new Jewish identity office
Far-right Avi Maoz launches body that will oversee school programing, says that while he opposed Orbach taking part in Bennett-Lapid coalition, he’s not ‘engaged in score-settling’
By Michael Bachner
Fashion designer and artist Akiva Alpert. (Courtesy)
May 15, 2023, 4:29 am
Neurodivergent fashion designer-to-the-stars wears his Jewish identity on his sleeve
Akiva Alpert got his start battling a controversial Urban Outfitters release by issuing his own Judaic-themed line. Now he works with celebs such as Justin Bieber and Billie Eilish
By Cathryn J. Prince
Jacqueline Kott-Wolle is the artist behind new exhibition 'Growing Up Jewish – Art & Storytelling.' (Courtesy)
May 5, 2023, 2:24 am
In new exhibit, artist shows American Jewish life can’t be painted in broad strokes
Second-generation Holocaust survivor Jacqueline Kott-Wolle grapples with a complex, beautiful and contradictory identity in ‘Growing Up Jewish,’ on show in NY through June
By Cathryn J. Prince
Ben Platt arrives at the premiere of 'Dear Evan Hansen' on Wednesday, September 22, 2021, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
May 2, 2023, 6:51 pm
Ben Platt wears Star of David necklace as part of Met Gala costume
The necklace choice comes as the performer stars in a play that tells the story of the 1915 antisemitic lynching of Leo Frank in the US, and whose opening drew neo-Nazi protests
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Children light candles as part of their lessons at Yachad Religious School in Oak Park, Michigan. (Courtesy of Yachad via JTA)
April 26, 2023, 4:44 am
Hebrew school enrollment across US down by nearly half since 2006, report says
While the number of Jewish children rose by 17%, enrollment at afterschool programs dropped by 45%, indicating that parents may be seeking alternatives – or opting out completely
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
HaZamir singers at the 2013 Gala Concert. (Courtesy HaZamir via JTA)
March 19, 2023, 10:58 am
How HaZamir youth choir serves as ‘an on-ramp to Jewish life’
450 teens in 36 chapters across the US and Israel take part in the musical program focused on pluralism, community and Zionism; they convene this weekend for a concert in NYC
By julia GERGELY
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U.S. and Israeli flags are flown in preparation for a media event during Austere Challenge 2012 in Israel Oct. 24, 2012. Austere Challenge 2012 is a three-week bilateral exercise designed to increase air defense interoperability between the United States and Israel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Stephanie Addison/Released)
March 9, 2023, 10:32 am
Worried about Israel? Five options to consider
Israel’s founder and first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion famously said, “The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.” Read Doug Seserman’s post on the Israeli judicial reform.
By Doug Seserman
Attendees of a Chabad teen convention in Times Square pose next to the mezuzah affixed to the doorpost of American Eagle Outfitters' flagship store. (Courtesy of Chabad via JTA)
March 5, 2023, 2:34 pm
American Eagle now has a mezuzah at its Times Square flagship
The popular apparel brand’s CEO Jay L. Schottenstein is well-known for his charitable Jewish contributions, including to Chabad, whose teen program engineered the affixing event
By Jacob Henry
'Judaism in a Digital Age,' by Rabbi Danny Schiff. (Book cover courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan/ Portrait courtesy of Joshua Franzos)
February 14, 2023, 2:25 am
As non-Orthodox Judaism wanes, a rabbi sees an updated mission in the digital age
In his new book, Danny Schiff urges a return to the religion’s roots, shifting focus from synagogue attendance to being a moral beacon in an age of wild technological advancement
By Toby Tabachnik
A flyer distributed by James Madison University showed the agenda of a Holocaust-related event that Jewish faculty members objected to. (Flyer via JTA/JMU campus photo CC BY-SA 3.0/ Ben Schumin)
January 29, 2023, 12:13 pm
Citing exclusion, Jewish faculty boycott Virginia university Holocaust commemoration
International Holocaust Remembrance Day event at James Madison University proceeds as planned despite protests by staff about insensitivities in the program, lack of consultation
By Andrew Lapin
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