Groundbreaking program instills Jewish pride in American teens Through immersive experiences in medicine, technology, culture and innovation, AKLA aims to give young Jews ...
In Lloyd Wolf’s evocative photography exhibit, “A Joyful Noise,” you can almost hear the Klezmer music — plaintive and celebratory, earthy and devout, and always with a profound, but not easily definable, outpouring of Yiddishkeit. Now showing at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum at New York’s Hebrew Union College, the 45 images feature solo, dual... […]
(JTA) — Every October, Christopher Columbus returns not only as history but as controversy. The voyages associated with his name transformed the world, but their legacy is inseparable from conquest, coercion and the destruction that followed European expansion. Yet the same Iberian age also produced a quieter and far less controversial revolution: advances in astronomy,... […]