Search Jewish life and learning

1+ hour, 40+ min ago  (725+ words) Another major Jewish institution has collapsed " and the implications reach far beyond San Francisco. The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) has closed and is selling its building. What was once a bold, architecturally striking institution in the heart of downtown will…...

32+ min ago  (363+ words) College student Jack Redfern is student teaching math at Nicolet High School and teaches at Congregation Shalom. Redfern started with a specific curriculum'and'has'adapted it.'He now pulls from multiple resources and teaches the material in engaging ways using a timeline…...

2+ hour, 57+ min ago  (556+ words) Have you forgotten the lessons of passover?Johnson City Press Even people who don't celebrate Passover have been exposed to lessons from the Exodus (if only through Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments"), but some of us retain water better than…...

7+ hour, 6+ min ago  (1046+ words) Every year brings new printings of the Haggadah from every sector of the Jewish world, with a focus that spans the spectrum of religious thought. Here are 4 new Haggadahs I came across that may be of interest to readers. Each…...

3+ hour, 18+ min ago  (249+ words) This Yair Emanuel Blue Aluminum Hanukkah Menorah was made from anodized aluminum and features different shades of blue on its stem, branches and base. The Menorah has a traditional nine-branch design that consists of eight curved branches and a tall…...

6+ hour, 44+ min ago  (374+ words) The deployment of airborne forces is not an isolated defensive move: it follows a military pattern that historically precedes ground interventions. The recent deployment of US paratroopers to the Middle East is neither a routine nor merely symbolic move. In…...

47+ min ago  (1843+ words) Jenna Weissman Joselit was looking for a project that wasn't so "heavily freighted" after her book on the American "embrace" of the Ten Commandments came out in 2017. "Out of the blue," an editor at the Jewish Lives biography series, a…...

1+ hour, 23+ min ago  (422+ words) Vehi'Sheamda, in the Haggadah, reminds us of the tragic but all too recognisable aspect of Jewish national identity that in every generation we face'enemies'intent on our destruction.' While this is a reality that needs little reminder in our current times,…...

5+ hour, 27+ min ago  (313+ words) A Tale of Two Yom Tovs: The cleaning, cooking, and endless to-do lists before Pesach. Then a box arrived at her door from Yaldei. Full Story "Mommy, Mendy keeps hitting me!" one child complained. "And he's not cleaning, just throwing…...

4+ hour, 11+ min ago  (723+ words) (JNS) Many Jews spend countless hours preparing for Passover, including searching for every crumb that is anathema on the holiday and preparing the unusual seder menu. Shelley Atlas Serber, of Long Island, N.Y., estimates that she has spent "hundreds and hundreds…...