Revolutionary American Jews
By Adina Rosenthal
“You’re Jewish, so do you celebrate Independence Day?” When you live in a small town with a small Jewish population, such a question...
The Lost Diary of Margot Frank
By Kayla Green
Every day, countless tourists flock to the Anne Frank House to visit the hiding place of young Anne, her family and acquaintances. The...
Jewish History in China Boosting Sino-Israeli Relations
by Amanda Walgrove
Chinese and Jewish cultures are among the oldest remaining civilizations in the world. Besides the spiritual divide, both cultures highly value family life...
Keeping Up With the Times: Digitizing Holocaust Archives
By Amanda Walgrove
The rapid growth of technology, characteristic of the twenty-first century, has altered methods of human relation. Communicating through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and email...
Keeping Up With the Times: Digitizing Holocaust Archives
By Amanda Walgrove
The rapid growth of technology, characteristic of the twenty-first century, has altered methods of human relation. Communicating through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and email...
The Golem in the Attic
By Kayla Green
Tucked away in the snowy cobblestone streets of Prague’s Jewish Quarter stands a synagogue that is as old and significant as it is...
Jewish Ghosts of Budapest
By Merav Levkowitz
On the last evening of 2010, a Friday, about 35-40 (mostly) young adults, gathered in a non-descript apartment in the center of Budapest’s—actually...
A Tale of Two New Years
By Gabriel Weinstein
Optimism and excitement for the new year still permeate the crisp winter air as in the second week of 2011. Lofty...
An Ancient Synagogue in Damascus
By Samantha Sisskind
If you go to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City in Damascus, Syria, you’ll find hardly any obvious traces of Jewish life. ...
The Secret History of Hanukkah
By Gabriel Weinstein
Students in Hebrew schools and Jewish day schools learn that Hanukkah is the celebration of the Maccabees’ improbable military triumph and the miraculous...
Questioning the Merit of Faith
By Steven Philp
Friday evening, nearly 3,000 people packed themselves in to the Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto, Canada to witness former-British Prime Minister Tony Blair and...
The Fallen Kibbutz: A Microcosm of Israeli Society
By Lily Hoffman Simon
This year marked the centennial birthday of the Kibbutz. However, the structure of these unique societal experiments has changed so dramatically that,...