The "Who is a Jew?" question is a thorny one, which has been bedeviling Israel since it's inception.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
The chutzpa of British judges. They are trying to alter the identity requirements of a three-and-half thousand year old faith that is the precursor of Christianity.
Steven I. Weiss | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business
Click here to watch in High Definition (HD) Billionaire philanthropist Michael Steinhardt delivered a bold speech indicting Jewish leadership for n...
David Dean Bottrell | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
The biggest reason I love Jews? They love bacon and Christmas more than I do. Friendly, funny, honest and loyal. As Marty's mother used to say, "What's not to like?"
Menachem Kaiser | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living
Open, visible identification with any group whose rules and/or opinions are stated or implicitly assumed is a responsibility, or, conversely, a burden.
Emily Bracken | Posted 06.14.2009 | Comedy
"If I Were A Gay Man" lyrics from a Fiddler on the Roof spinoff. The story follows Tevye's great-great-great granddaughter, Rachel, a single Jewish woman in her 30's who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
Jerusalem Post | Posted 06.13.2009 | World
The owner of a bed and breakfast in the Austrian town of Serfaus refused earlier this month to book rooms to a family because they were Jews....
AP | Posted 05.20.2009 | Chicago
SKOKIE, Ill. — Thousands of people on Sunday attended the opening of a $45 million Holocaust museum in this Chicago suburb perhaps best known fo...
AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 05.19.2009 | Chicago
SKOKIE, Ill. — Fritzie Fritzshall gazed up at the illuminated wall and scanned the rows of victim names engraved in Hebrew, Yiddish and English,...
Doree Lewak | Posted 05.10.2009 | Living
With no choice but to cut out some of the usual suspects that hobble a healthy lifestyle, being a member of The Tribe may have never looked better. But with most things Jewish, it's not quite so simple.
Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 07.21.2009 | Home
When I first visited Barbados last year, I wasn't thinking about the Jewish people at all. And yet one morning I found myself sitting in the sanctuary of one of of the oldest synagogues in the Western hemisphere.
Elaine Hall | Posted 03.21.2009 | Living
Is it possible to feel both anger at autism and love at the same time? To hold these seemingly opposing views side by side? I think so.
Leslie Goldman | Posted 03.19.2009 | Style
Jewish girls worldwide, it's time to break out the Manishevitz and raise a Kiddush cup: Israel-born supermodel Bar Rafaeli cover model for the new 2009 Sports Illustrated.
Amy York Rubin | Posted 03.06.2009 | World
From their merging of religious tradition with daily life to their personal and historical narratives, the similarities between Muslims and Jews living in Israel is almost tragically comical.
Meredith Lopez | Posted 02.27.2009 | Style
In my letter to the Obamas, I explained that my son is also mixed heritage, like our new president: my baby is half-Jewish and half-Cuban, or Juban as they say in Miami.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
Rather than being known for Wall Street and finance, I believe that the Jewish community should be known first and foremost for relationships.
Mort Gerberg | Posted 02.19.2009 | Style
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Earl Pomerantz | Posted 02.16.2009 | Style
Ideas are like twinkling slivers of understanding. They flash in your mind, and you go, "Yeah!" It's not usually the whole thing that comes to you. Just a fragment.
Philip Weiss | Posted 02.11.2009 | World
The American Jewish Committee has said that anti-Zionism is antisemitism. It thus conflates Jewishness with Zionism, and this conflation is damaging the Jewish experience around the world.
Steven I. Weiss | Posted 01.30.2009 | Media
Despite the fact that many media personalities are bright and funny and fascinating and love being Jewish, so many of them have the distinct feeling that Judaism doesn't want them.
Adam Neiman | Posted 01.24.2009 | Living
Obama's election was liberating in many ways for all of us. For me, as an American Jew, there was a surprise. It was narcissism. Here, in the new world, it wasn't all about us, the Jews.
Larry Gellman | Posted 01.23.2009 | Business
44% of Americans say they have changed their religion at least once. A generation ago, we were born Jewish or Christian and we stayed that way whether we liked it or not.
Mort Gerberg | Posted 01.21.2009 | Style
Jessica Jensen | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green
Chanukah starts Sunday December 21 this year. Just as we encourage everyone to incorporate eco-smart ideas and green gifts into their Christmas plans,...
Michael DeJong | Posted 01.17.2009 | Living
Yes, Hanukkah candles drip. There are always distractions from every family ritual, but try to "be in the moment." Don't slip into "freak-out" mode just because something isn't going as planned.
Eric Lurio | Posted 11.12.2009 | World