Jewish Telegraphic Agency

6 Jewish influencers who aren’t giving up on TikTok

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. TikTok, the platform widely ...
eng.belta

Mir Castle to host exhibition about Jewish culture and traditions

GRODNO, 11 March (BelTA) - Traditional ritual clothes, paintings, objects and photos telling about national traditions from the Museum of History and Culture of the Jews of Belarus, of the Mir Castle ...
Jewish Journal

Worldly Wisdom and the Jewish Tradition of Translation

A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a National Jewish Book Award shows, such a work is not only real, it testifies to ...
Opinion

The Jewish Museum’s muddled reinstallation

Though ambitious and engaging, the New York institution’s reorganized collections galleries struggle to offer a coherent vision of Jewish history and identity.

Festival of lights strengthens Jewish bonds, educates Myrtle Beach on Hanukkah

In a time of heightened awareness and vigilance, the Jewish community in Myrtle Beach is finding strength and unity through celebration.
The Forward

For this historian, anti-Zionism is part of a hallowed Jewish tradition

In 1935, the leftist magazine The New Masses published a scathing profile of the militant Zionist Vladimir Jabotinsky, blasting his visions of empire in Palestine and calling him a “Jewish Hitler.” ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Frustrated by Chicago’s Jewish institutions, anti-Zionist artists are forming their own Jewish cultural center

Seeing a lack of a distinctively Jewish contemporary arts hub in Chicago, Gabriel Chalfin-Piney-González set out to create their own. Returning to Chicago from an artist residency in Maine, Gabriel ...
Sacramento State University

Addressing Antisemitism at Sac State

The word antisemitism means prejudice against or hatred towards Jewish individuals, Jews as a people, Jewish ethnicity, culture, institutions, and/or religion/religious teachings. In addition, ...

Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a time-honored tradition for American Jews

Like many minority groups, Jews have always created ways of adapting to the societies in which they live, but whose culture they do not totally share. And one thing that means is a collection of ...

For Jewish communities, Chinese food is more than a Christmas tradition – they’re also walking the wok

Jewish and Chinese communities in Canada, bound by a sense of otherness and a common map of exclusion, have found ways to ...
Jewish Journal

PJ Library Brings Presidential Passover to Young Readers

On a quiet evening in April 2008, just days before the critical Pennsylvania primary, three junior staff members on then-Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign were feeling homesick. It was the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Jewish Food Is Making a Comeback in Poland

It’s late morning in Warsaw, and we pick a place—nothing special—to have breakfast. “Look,” I say to my husband and children, quickly scanning the menu, making my way through various preparations of ...