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Rabbi Vanessa Ochs is the author of the new book, 'The Passover Haggadah: A Biography.' (Courtesy)
April 8, 2020, 4:28 pm
This year’s ‘virtual’ seders have an ancient echo, says Haggadah historian
Through prosperity and darkness — and now again in modernity — the retelling of the Exodus story has evolved alongside the Jewish people. Prof. Vanessa Ochs traces the journey
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative: In this Thursday, February 27, 2020, photo, a worker checks yogurt coming off the production line at the Mengniu dairy factory in Beijing. Reporters were invited to China Mengniu Dairy Co. Ltd. this week to be shown how companies are reviving after anti-virus measures shut down most of the world's second-biggest economy. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
April 8, 2020, 4:07 am
As kosher food factories in China fall victim to COVID-19, Diaspora feels impact
Though Passover supplies got out on time, shutdowns in virus’s epicenter and one of the world’s largest economies leave a marked ripple effect on observant Jews around the globe
By Rich Tenorio
Dov Tiefenbach as Mr. Harchol and Tibor Feldman as Daddy in this still from 'About a teacher.' (Courtesy Hanan Harchol Productions)
April 8, 2020, 1:41 am
Inner-city film teacher turns camera on himself and his award-winning students
In a movie now streaming on Amazon Prime, Israeli-born Hanan Harchol portrays the joys and failures of his early days teaching at a rough-and-tumble urban public school
By Rich Tenorio
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (left) and Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert, in February 2008. (Wikimedia commons/ CC BY-SA 2.0/ Joan Halifax)
April 5, 2020, 4:57 am
Studying US Buddhist centers, researcher finds 130-year history of fellow Jews
Emily Sigalow’s new book ‘American JewBu’ details how the Eastern religion has attracted Jewish believers and influenced modern Judaism since it hit the Western Hemisphere in 1893
By Rich Tenorio
National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University founder, Dr. Irwin Redlener. (Children's Health Fund)
April 2, 2020, 5:51 am
In virus epicenter NYC, disaster guru puts blame squarely on Trump White House
Founder of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, mayoral adviser Dr. Irwin Redlener charges US president with massive delay in testing, mixed messages
By Rich Tenorio
Dr. Martin Zand (left) works with Jiong Wang, B.Med, M.S., research assistant professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. (Courtesy University of Rochester Medical Center)
March 31, 2020, 6:52 am
US expert: Israeli response to coronavirus crisis is ‘right on target’
Compared with the decentralized health system in the US, the Jewish state’s reaction to COVID-19 has been relatively swift and well-organized, says data scientist Dr. Martin Zand
By Rich Tenorio
Rear Adm. Anne Schuchat, director for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015, before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine the re-emergence of vaccine-preventable diseases. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
March 30, 2020, 6:12 am
Invoking Jewish experience, deputy CDC head says fear the virus, not the foreign
Dr. Anne Schuchat says Jews know what it’s like to be stigmatized, as she pushes for tight-knit yet socially distant response to COVID-19, predicting that battle may take years
By Rich Tenorio
Ofer Levy heads the Precision Vaccines Program (PVP) at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he is working on a coronavirus vaccine. (Courtesy Ofer Levy)
March 18, 2020, 4:03 am
Racing for a coronavirus vaccine, Boston scientist hopes someone beats him to it
Israeli-American Dr. Ofer Levy heads PVP, which is among 40 research groups aiming to trample COVID-19. As lives hang in the balance, his work focuses on the elderly
By Rich Tenorio
Rabbi Shalom Greenberg distributed thousands of masks and aid kits to Jews and non-Jews in Shanghai's Hongkou district. (Courtesy Chabad Shanghai)
March 16, 2020, 11:56 pm
As virus ravages Asia, Jews carry on through faith in God and fellow man
Despite longstanding measures to maintain distance, communities across China, Japan, and Korea manage to still come together — and are even planning for communal Passovers
By Rich Tenorio
Kosher butchers picket outside a shop in the heart of a Jewish neighborhood on Orchard Street in New York's Lower East Side, October 4, 1937. (AP Photo)
March 2, 2020, 2:47 am
From Venice, to Nazis, to US inner cities — how the ghetto got its name
Prof. Daniel B. Schwartz studies the evolution of a word that’s kept outsiders out and insiders in — voluntarily and involuntarily — and been used as a tool for over 500 years
By Rich Tenorio
Dr. Margaret Mead, anthropologist, visits with friends on a field trip to Bali, Indonesia, in 1957. (AP Photo)
February 21, 2020, 4:29 pm
How a 19th century progressive Jewish scientist’s ideas beat out racist eugenics
National Jewish Book Award-winner Charles King’s ‘Gods of the Upper Air’ tells how a cohort of women scholars helped Franz Boaz give birth to the field of anthropology
By Rich Tenorio
Philippines president Manuel L. Quezon (center at mic) welcoming Jewish refugees April 23, 1940 at the dedication of Marikina Hall, which he constructed on his own property to house the newly arrived immigrants. To his left is Alex Frieder (white suit/seated), chairman of the Philippines Jewish Refugee Committee, and to the right (white suit/standing) is Herbert Frieder. (Courtesy 'Rescue in the Philippines')
February 20, 2020, 4:30 am
Little known Philippines’ WWII rescue of Jews was capped by US interference
Late 1930s Open Doors policy of leader Manuel Quezon that saved over 1,200 Holocaust refugees is commemorated at recent events in Tel Aviv and United Nations, and in new films
By Rich Tenorio
A still shot from 'The Art of Waiting,' directed by Erez Tadmor and starring Nelly Tagar and Roy Assaf. (Courtesy Tadmor)
February 13, 2020, 6:40 am
Real-life fertility saga bears fruit when Israeli director reproduces it in film
In Erez Tadmor’s native land, his popular movie ‘The Art of Waiting’ has raised awareness and helped viewers share their own tales. Now that it’s hit the US, will it be as fecund?
By Rich Tenorio
Tamar Manasseh of Mothers and Men Against Senseless Killings in a still from the new documentary 'They Ain't Ready for Me.' (Courtesy Brad Rothschild)
February 12, 2020, 6:14 am
Meet the African-American Jewish mom who fights gun violence with prayer
Documentary ‘They Ain’t Ready for Me’ chronicles student rabbi Tamar Manasseh, pioneer of a Chicago campaign providing poor families with a much-needed oasis
By Rich Tenorio
Christine Leunens arrives at the FX and Disney Golden Globes afterparty at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, January 5, 2020, in Beverly Hills, California (Photo by Mark Von Holden/Invision/AP)
February 7, 2020, 8:39 pm
Up for six Oscars, ‘Jojo Rabbit’ is based on a novel by this supermodel author
Christine Leunens says she ‘would have thought I was dreaming’ if told about the eventual success of her book ‘Caging Skies’ when she penned it a decade ago
By Rich Tenorio
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