Jewish History
The Most Dangerous Contraband of All
In his last blogs, Charles London talked about a collected Jewish museum and the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda.The ancient Israelites ...
The Abayudaya Jews of Uganda
In his last blog, Charles London talked about a collected Jewish museum.The Jerusalem Post has published a report, unsurprising to ...
Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges
A chapter in black-Jewish relations that is not often told.
Inglorious Basterds–The First of Many.
Over the next few weeks, you are going to hear a lot about Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Inglorious Basterds. Actually, ...
Celebrating the Global People
Charles London, author of Far From Zion: The Search for a Global Community, is guest-blogging for MyJewishLearning and the Jewish ...
Best of the Rest
These weeks just go by so fast. Last week, we had Tisha B’Av and lurking in the distance are those ...
Going Down to Yasgur’s Farm
I’m very picky about the movies I see. In my eyes, I already have a television at home. Why should ...
Roseanne Barr…Oy
You know that famous Seinfeld where Jerry thinks his dentist, Dr. Watley, converted to Judaism for the jokes? A priest ...
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s “A Heart Afire”
As one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi has labored his whole life to make ...
Jews, God and Videotape: An Interview With Jeffrey Shandler
America in the 20th century saw an explosion of technology that was unprecedented. People, whether they were comfortable with it ...
Only in America–Where are the Women?
There has been a good amount of talk in the blogosphere about the new National Museum of American Jewish History ...