This Week's Links
By Michelle Albert
Snuggle up with popcorn and a blanket and watch Heeb's countdown of the 100 greatest Jewish movie moments. To top off your Jewish...
Oscar and the Jews
By Symi Rom-Rymer
This year’s Oscars brought us some surprises (Sandra Bullock), some truly painful dance sequences (I’m looking at you Adam Shankman), and some deserving...
Your Wednesday Culture Fix
By Sarah Breger
MILLIONS OF CATHOLICS ARE OF JEWISH ANCESTRY
Steve Jones of the UK Telegraph examines the complex issues of religious identity and DNA, finding that...
A Rabbah by any other name….
By Sarah Breger
A few weeks ago a woman's title, but not her duties, changed. Maharat Sara Hurwitz, a member of the religious leadership at a...
The Right to Choose
By Michelle Albert
Last May, a 17 year-old girl in Utah paid a man $150 dollars to beat her up—kicking her in the stomach—in the hopes...
How Do You Teach Human Rights?
By Symi Rom-Rymer
On International Holocaust Memorial Day (January 27) this year, a report from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) was released outlining...
This Week's Links
By Michelle Albert
Washington, DC has legalized gay marriage.
The Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum is pushing what might be the last call for names of Jews...
Jewlicious, Revisited
By Caroline Kessler
So, it's been a little over a week since I've returned from the gathering of the tribe that I previously mentioned: Jewlicious Festival...
This Week's Links
By Michelle Albert
Gird your phone lines: The Senate has voted to extend the US Patriot Act for another year.
A bill up for vote in...
Breaking the Silence
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Three thin little black books have been creating a firestorm of controversy in Israel recently. No, they have nothing to do sex scandals. ...
A Gathering of the Tribe
By Caroline Kessler
Although it's only Monday, I'm already planning for this Friday, February 19. Why? Because that's when I leave, at approximately 5.30 in the...
Too many lectures on a Wednesday night
By Caroline Kessler
As I emerged from a coffee shop on Craig Street, a main thoroughfare for Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh students, I saw...