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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

Victor Wishna

Madeline Forman. (Courtesy of the Forman family/via JTA)
April 20, 2022, 4:06 am
80 years after being told she had a future, this Jewish singer is getting recognized
Madeline Forman quit her nascent musical career to help sustain her Russian immigrant family in New Jersey. Now, experts are lauding her long-buried recordings
By Victor Wishna
Most of Paraguay’s 1,000 Jews live in Asuncion, where B’nai Jacob’s Torah has found a new home. (Courtesy of Erin Jones-Avni/via JTA)
July 29, 2018, 3:00 am
En route from Iowa to Paraguay, Torah scroll tells story of modern Judaism
As communities say goodbye in the American heartland, counterparts crop up in unlikely places across the world, spurring continuity and cooperation
By Victor Wishna
(JTA collage/8 Books for Hanukkah)
December 13, 2017, 4:45 am
Great books for eight Jewy nights
The perfect gift for your favorite Person of the Books — and hey, let’s just be glad we’re not the People of the Socks
By Victor Wishna
'Judah Maccabee Goes to the Doctor,' by Ann D. Koffsky. (Apples & Honey Press/via JTA)
November 28, 2017, 9:12 pm
Judah Maccabee went to the doctor. Then the anti-vaxxers got very mad
Author Ann D. Koffsky finds herself in the middle of a heated (and less than civil) online debate after she wrote a Hanukkah themed children’s book
By Victor Wishna
Robert Kraft, center, with Marshall Faulk, right, and, in rear, from left, Ron Yary, Roger Staubach and Dave Casper, June 15, 2017. (Hillel Kuttler via JTA)
October 20, 2017, 8:34 am
TV film debuts on Kraft and NFL Hall of Famers’ visit to Israel
One-hour special spotlights pilgrimage by Patriots owner, 18 football players to the Western Wall, Dead Sea, and the Jordan River
By Victor Wishna
Pete and Janna Linde in Kansas City's Meshuggah Bagels (Facebook)
August 20, 2017, 6:51 am
Authentic NY bagels have finally arrived in Kansas City
Pete and Janna Linde simply pined for a decent poppy. Now, they fill a giant carb-shaped hole in the BBQ capital’s food scene
By Victor Wishna
(Clockwise, from top left: Twelve Books/Flatiron Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Arcade Publishing/Lee Boudreaux Books/via JTA)
July 9, 2017, 6:03 am
9 Jewish books to read this summer
From memoir to biography, thriller to kooky caper, see what the Tribe has scribed for poolside perusal
By Victor Wishna
Books make wonderful Chrismukkah gifts. (Courtesy of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation)
December 21, 2016, 6:26 pm
8 books for 8 nights of Hanukkah
Whether you burn through a book a day or wrap a few as gifts, we’ve got enough literature to fuel you for the duration of the holiday
By Victor Wishna
Joanna Slusky, a professor of molecular biosciences and computational biology at the University of Kansas, at work in her lab. (Sarah Mullinax/via JTA)
December 11, 2016, 4:22 pm
This Jewish woman’s research may save millions of lives
Joanna Slusky might have the answer to increasingly antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs,’ which scientists say could cause more deaths than cancer by 2050
By Victor Wishna
Jonathan Safran Foer (Jeff Mermelstein/via JTA)
October 8, 2016, 1:43 am
10 awesome tomes for the Days of Awe (and after)
If you dare glance away from your prayer book a moment, these volumes might be worth the risk
By Victor Wishna
Tikva Naim Briggs, 34, is better known as Maksim Merman, the Yellowtailed SeaWitch. He is the world’s only known professional Jewish merman. (Courtesy of Briggs/JTA)
October 4, 2016, 12:30 am
In Kansas, a Jewish merman for all seasons
With few landsmen in Topeka, this Jew has taken to the water instead — but only after getting mer-mitzvahed
By Victor Wishna
Geoff, left, and Mitch Schwartz are the first pair of Jewish brothers to play in the NFL since 1923. (Olivia Goodkin and Lee Schwartz/via JTA)
September 5, 2016, 12:14 am
From matzo balls to footballs, two Jewish brothers recount their NFL journey
The lumbering linemen are as comfortable in the kitchen as they are on the field — not to mention badass at the bimah
By Victor Wishna
From left: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Jonah Lehrer, Jessi Klein (Jesse Jiryu Davis/Leah Lehrer/Robyn Von Swank/via JTA)
July 26, 2016, 6:41 am
7 books to make your summer more summery — and Jewy, too
Add a little ‘yiddishkeit’ to your reading list this beach season and check out these not-too-schmaltzy selections
By Victor Wishna
Kimberly Ferry, who had endured years of homelessness and mental health struggles, working at the Altamont Bakery in Tulsa. (Courtesy of Congregation B'nai Emunah/via JTA)
July 17, 2016, 1:07 am
How one Tulsa synagogue is baking its way to a better world
Many workers at B’nai Emunah’s Altamont Bakery come from difficult circumstances and credit the confectionery with helping turn their lives around
By Victor Wishna
'Hamilton' creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda performing 'To Life! (L’Chaim!)' from 'Fiddler on the Roof' at his wedding in 2010. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)
May 4, 2016, 8:48 am
A touch of Broadway at ‘Hamilton’ creator’s wedding
Lin-Manuel Miranda, who made and stars in megahit show, surprised his bride in 2010 with flash rendition of Fiddler’s ‘To Life’
By Victor Wishna
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