What to do with Hanukah? (Spoiler alert—its actually about Diaspora.) Hanukah lives in the sweet spot where there is one story which claims that it is “historically true” and yet there is very little contemporary evidence to back this up—the…
In this season of Sukkot –the festival of booths, of harvesting and gathering in –thousands of Kurds face displacement from their temporary homeland in Rojava, in Northern Syria. Those who are lucky enough flee the disaster created by the U.S.…
Jeremy Rishe grew up Jewish in Utah before moving to Brooklyn -- and is now producing his film JEWTAH about what that's like.
There is no sustainable argument to support the Prime Minister Netanyahu’s claim that the elected head of the Israeli state represents all Jews.
David Alexanderovich Douchman is my mother’s first cousin. His mother Bronja was my grandmother’s eldest sister and, unlike my great-grandparents and their seven other children, she didn’t leave Russia for Danzig in 1917. David grew up in Moscow, the son…
A group of young, Jewish, Toronto-based leaders who are active in building dynamic Jewish programming for young adults expected to get support from Moishe House for the work they do, but were surprised instead when they were turned down to be…