Jewish Culture

Bruce Springsteen Would Be Proud (Or Maybe Scratch His Head in Confusion)

Two weeks ago, I joined thousands of families around Israel for a time-honored ritual: the Saturday night grand finale of ...

Looking at the award-winning photograph “Chayla in Shul” I wonder:What is Chayla thinking? Here she is. Alone in this cavernous ...

One of my favorite things about my new role as a full-time historian at the ISJL is getting to meet ...

When I think of home, I imagine the physical space I return to at night, the one with the white-washed ...

Often reality is stranger than fiction; The vote for one of the first major strike in American history was taken ...

Ladino first cast its magic spell on me in childhood. It always struck me as a graceful, rolling language, one ...

I’ve never cried when a celebrity suddenly dies. It has always seemed like something that just happens. Certainly, it’s a ...

What makes a secular Israeli connect to his Jewish identity, roots and spirituality? What makes secular Jew from Jerusalem become ...

I’m a Latina Jew. I live in New York City, famous for the diversity of its population; after all, 37 ...

Last night, I had the great honor of reading from my new novel, The Anatomy Lesson (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) inside ...

A new issue of the JOFA Journal will soon be in our subscribers’ mailboxes; its theme is Orthodox women in ...

A few days ago my novel, Fields of Exile , was published in the USA, and this month marks exactly ...