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In 2019, bestselling author A.J. Jacobs traveled to Spain with his wife Julie and two of their children to compete in the World Jigsaw Puzzle...
At 17, Anna (Anya) Pavlikova was an introverted, bookish teenager who loved animals and ecology and was concerned about climate change. She was a good...
New York judge Nathan D. Perlman was apparently a big believer in the adage: If you need a job done right, you’ve got to turn to the right people....
In May 1972, seven young women were arrested by Chicago homicide detectives and each charged with 11 counts of abortion and conspiracy to commit...
Herbie Cohen learned his legendary negotiating skills as the leader of a Jewish gang on the streets of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. In his adulthood, he’s...
Five years ago, Israeli entrepreneur Daniella Gilboa showed a group of male investors a viral photo of a newborn surrounded by the 1,616 IVF syringes...
A new study shows that young women with a Jewish upbringing are 23 percentage points more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree than non-Jewish young...
In the late 1960s, film director Norman Jewison was in despair about the political upheavals in America and around the world. Spiritually despondent,...
Every year at the Passover seder, Olga Czik Kay reminds her family and friends that in 1944, the Jewish festival of freedom ironically marked the...
Just prior to her murder in Auschwitz in October of 1943, artist Charlotte Salomon completed what many consider the world’s first graphic novel. She...
Jay Rosenblatt’s Academy Award-nominated short documentary begins with the filmmaker and his friend Richard J. Silberg, climbing over the fence of...
Admirers of poet Marcia Falk‘s bold and evocative feminist rewriting of Jewish liturgy have long hoped she would produce a work they could read at...
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, filmmaker Dmitry Bogolyubov decided he had to flee his native country. He, his wife and young...
When author E.J. Schwartz began writing her young adult novel about eating disorders just before the Covid pandemic hit, she had no idea just how...
Marianne Tanzer recently had to make difficult decisions about her elderly father’s medical care. Her father, 86, was already in poor health, and...
A Polish fashion brand is doing what it can to cut through the chaos at the border as refugees stream into the country from war-torn Ukraine. The...
Dr. Alla Shapiro was a first responder at Chernobyl, the world’s worst nuclear disaster. The accident at one of the reactors at the Ukrainian...
When Lior Cole decided to meet up with a friend in Washington Square Park in New York in summer 2021, she had no idea her life would change that day....
The teenage internet activist who built a website to keep the world updated on the spread of the Covid pandemic has just launched a new website...
Middle East events unfolded strikingly fast in late March 2002. A Hamas suicide bomber blew up a Passover Seder held at the Park Hotel in Netanya on...
When white supremacists marched in Charlottesville in August 2017, they encircled the famous statue of Thomas Jefferson at the University of...
In the late 1990s, an Israeli researcher named Teddy Katz produced a master’s degree thesis for the University of Haifa that claimed Israel...
Pauline Baer de Perignon fought long and hard for the restitution of “Portrait of a Lady as Pomona,” painted by Nicolas de Largillière in 1714....
It wouldn’t be surprising if Queen Elizabeth were to declare 2021 her “annus horribilis II.” Back in 1992, the original horrible year, the...
They say that if you really want to get to know a place, speak to the locals. This is the premise of author Ethan Michaeli’s new book “Twelve...
A few weeks ago, internationally recognized human rights lawyer and activist Irwin Cotler was appointed Canada’s new permanent Special Envoy on...
All of Israeli bodybuilder Lavie Kafra‘s years of hard work at the gym and strict dietary discipline paid off when he earned the silver medal at...
Paul Goldstein is not the oldest person to receive a PhD, but he comes pretty close. In September 2020, Goldstein earned a doctorate in political...