4+ hour, 47+ min ago  (1383+ words) There doesn't seem to be much point in living for more than 80 years, making it through joy and sorrow and boredom and beauty and everything else that life offers, having many careers, each of them involving at least one of…...

8+ hour ago  (549+ words) Yasha, like Ms. Gurevich herself, is Russian-Jewish-American, but unlike the author, he hasn't had a few decades to figure himself out. The book takes place in 1986, when Yasha is 13 and about to become a bar mitzvah. But since his family…...

8+ hour, 13+ min ago  (235+ words) It was inevitable. As things took an overheated turn in Minnesota, the familiar chorus of rabbis rose in unison to invoke the Torah in support of their preferred partisan outcome. Once again, instead of prioritizing authentic Torah learning, these communal…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (350+ words) When I was a child, masks were just big cheap ugly plastic things that covered your whole face except for your eyes " I don't remember how you breathed except that the thing was so ill-fitting that it couldn't have been…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (712+ words) A new guy'The Jewish Standard By the time you read this I will have met the new guy in our lives. We love him already. Of course we do! How could we not? We've celebrated every remarkable, incredible ultrasound picture…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (59+ words) Women and the Holocaust online'The Jewish Standard Join Carli Snyder, Ph.D., as she explores the evolution of research on women, gender, and sexuality during the Holocaust, on Zoom, for the Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University and the Cohen Institute…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1495+ words) Once upon a time, some boys in Boston's Brighton neighborhood used to beat up a kid named Mark Levenson because of the yarmulke on his head. Today, at 68, Mr. Levenson of West Orange proudly wears his yarmulke as the newly…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (245+ words) As with much of feelings about Jewish life and Israel I am conflicted and torn. The news that the IDF finally located, identified, and recovered the remains of Ran Gvili filled me with so many raw emotions. I felt enormous…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1100+ words) By now, the idea of independent news media isn't particularly shocking. Lots of people have their own Substacks, podcasts, Instagrams, TikToks, and YouTube channels. The major networks aren't so major anymore, almost no one, at least relatively speaking," watches broadcast…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1589+ words) When you first walk into Marcia Sandford Fishkind's beautiful house, in a lovely old section of Short Hills, you think that you're in a regular house. Then you see the cans of cat food. Many many cans of cat food....