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When biblical scholar Elsie Stern lectures about the ancient world at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, the first thing she does is hold up a Bible and tell her students, âFor most of the first 3,000 years that these words were around, if you said âBible,â no one would have any ...
Building a Boycott, Letter By Letter ...
Religious seekers are as old as religion itself. But it wasnât until mid-20th-century America that there was a full-fledged, organized movement of Jews who moved from less observant to more observantâand a name for them. Behold, the birth of the baal teshuvah. ...
In the early 20th century, Jews continued to use âgoyâ when speaking among themselves, but âgentileâ became the word of choice in public discourse. ...
Technology inexplicably fails us often enough to need a word for the occasion, and glitch has slipped in to fill the void. Newspaper headlines routinely illustrate the wordâs versatility and popularity. When thousands of travelers find themselves stranded: âComputer glitch cancels East Coast flights.â When a much-anticipated website launch screeches ...
These days, all eyes are on what many are calling the new anti-Semitism, arising from both far-right and far-left politics, radical Islam and virulent anti-Zionist ideologies. But the old anti-Semitism isnât forgottenâa 2013 Anti-Defamation League poll showed that 26 percent of Americans believe that âJews were responsible for the death ...
A Full-Bodied History by Hilary Weissman, with additional reporting by Sala Levin For a quick overview of the complexities of ...
Maybe you know one. Maybe you want one. Maybe you are one. Go to JDate.com, and youâre guaranteed to find one: âMessage me if you are looking for a nice Jewish boy who values family, respect and loyalty.â ...
In 2004, the stoic, cowboy-esque Clint Eastwood unexpectedly proved himself more Tevye the Dairyman than Dirty Harry. In response to a reporterâs question about the chances of his movie, Mystic River, winning the Best Picture Oscar, Eastwood cried, âKinehora!â He explained that it was a Jewish expression used to ward ...
The term haredi comes from the Hebrew root meaning âto trembleâ (hared) and a verse in Isaiah, in which God says, âBut to this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at my word.â âHaredi really means those who are in ...
How Philistine Became a Dirty Word by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil tâs a story nearly everyone knows: The young shepherd boy uses
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The (Jewish) Sixth Sense By George E. Johnson In his autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me, Marlon Brando writes at length about
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