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Everything you want to know about 'A Court of Thrones and Roses' author Sarah J. Maas' Jewish identity
4+ hour, 15+ min ago (843+ words) Mar 5 2026 01:34PM EST Fantasy novels are full of deadly trials, ancient magic, and brooding love interests. But for millions of readers, the worlds created by Sarah J. Maas have always carried something quieter beneath the spectacle: traces of her own story. Maas…...
Everything you want to know about 'A Court of Thrones and Roses' author Sarah J. Mass' Jewish identity
4+ hour, 16+ min ago (834+ words) Mar 5 2026 01:34PM EST Fantasy novels are full of deadly trials, ancient magic, and brooding love interests. But for millions of readers, the worlds created by Sarah J. Maas have always carried something quieter beneath the spectacle: traces of her own story. Maas…...
Are Jewish-Americans Secret Traitors?
2+ week, 4+ day ago (141+ words) Satirizing nazis can be defiance " the "Drag Race" Hitler Snatch Game performance wasn"t quite that The Real Reason Anne Frank Became a Global Symbol What it Means to be Jewish: A Conversation with Jonah Platt (#3 Staff Pick) When Zionism…...
What it Means to be Jewish: A Conversation with Jonah Platt (#3 Staff Pick)
3+ week, 1+ day ago (237+ words) Jonah Platt is the host of'Being Jewish with Jonah Platt. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Mijal will be back next week. Hey everyone, Noam here.' The podcast that makes sense of Israel's past and present. While we prep for…...
How first-generation Jewish Americans created children's favorite toys — and childhood itself
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (702+ words) Feb 4 2026 09:00AM EST Knabe piano. Shirley looks about 10. Her hair is curled into perfect ringlets, her eyes are bright and wide, and her lips are puckered in the adorable faux-surprised look she made famous. She's perched on the lap of an…...
Tiffany Haddish: Israel trip, Jewish identity, and why Torah heals
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (168+ words) The Torah literally heals my soul." " In this episode of Stars of David, hosts Elon Gold and Eli Leonard sit down with the legendary Tiffany Haddish for a conversation that is as deeply moving as it is hilarious. Tiffany shares…...
Parshat Beshalach and Ran Gvili: Why Judaism brings our dead home
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (714+ words) Updated Jan 28 2026 12:49AM EST Mark Twain once wrote that history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. This week, contemporary events in Jewish history did not only rhyme; they resonated deeply with events from thousands of years ago that occur in this…...
What Israelis and Diaspora Jews get wrong about each other
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (406+ words) Jan 7 2026 03:00PM EST It's a strange paradox: Diaspora Jews are running toward Israel " the one place where Jewish life feels whole and visible " while many Israelis dream of getting out, away from the chaos of politics and the constant threat of…...
Could this ancient engraving be the oldest picture of Jerusalem?
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (1311+ words) Dec 30 2025 04:51PM EST A 2,700-year-old engraving on the walls of an Assyrian palace may be our oldest glimpse into the ancient city of Jerusalem and provide another perspective on a Biblical story of how a Judean king interacted with one of…...