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Slawomir Grunberg filming “Szymon’s Return” in Ukraine.
December 13, 2018, 2:51 pm
Shooting star comes to Tenafly
The Polish, American, and Jewish life of film maker Slawomir Grunberg
By Joanne Palmer
(Photo courtesy Sotheby’s)
December 13, 2018, 12:00 pm
Crooner’s kippah fetches over $9,000 at auction
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
(Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)
December 13, 2018, 11:59 am
Wilco singer Jeff Tweedy tells the story of his conversion to Judaism
By Gabe Friedman
December 13, 2018, 11:58 am
4 of 10 finalists in U.N. travel-tech contest are Israeli
Dr. Adam Ferziger
December 13, 2018, 11:57 am
Jerusalem and Babylon
U.S.-born Israeli scholar examines Jewish connections across denominational divides
By Joanne Palmer
Finalists in the International Bible Contest Champion of Champions onstage at the Jerusalem Convention Center on December 6. Rabbi Ezra Frazer is second from right in the top row; Yair Shahak is second from left in the bottom row. (Shlomi Cohen/FLASH90)
December 13, 2018, 11:56 am
‘The word is very near to you’
Two Teaneck scholars report on their experiences in the Champion of Champions of International Bible Contest
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Aleh volunteers help a child learn how to drum at one of the organizations’s rehabilitative facilities.
December 13, 2018, 11:55 am
Aleh’s new development director
Josh Pruzansky to raise funds for Israeli nonprofit helping children with complex disabilities
By Lois Goldrich
Yitz Landes’s Hebrew language book ‘Studies in the Development of Birkat ha-Avodah,’ above, has gone on sale at bookstores in Israel.
December 13, 2018, 11:54 am
Mysterious case of the Ritzeh prayer
Student from Teaneck investigates origins of the siddur
By Larry Yudelson
December 13, 2018, 11:53 am
Vayigash: When sorrow is embedded
By Rabbi Paul Jacobson
December 13, 2018, 11:52 am
To Cleveland, to Cleveland, to Cleveland we go!
By Banji Ganchrow
Laurence Fine
December 13, 2018, 11:51 am
National Gun Violence Prevention Shabbat
Children place white roses on a Star of David sculpture at the construction site of a new synagogue in Potsdam, Germany, on November 9, 2018, the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht. (Bernd Settnik/AFP/Getty Images)
December 13, 2018, 11:40 am
Russian immigrants have become a source for change that’s mostly good
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Dave Nicholls pilots the bobsled as Chaim Raice pushes. (Courtesy of Nicholls)
December 13, 2018, 11:40 am
Israel has a bobsled team (U.S. based), and it wants to compete in the Olympics
By Josefin Dolsten
Barry Jenkins, right, directing Stephan James, center, and Dave Franco on the set of “If Beale Street Could Talk.” (Annapurna Pictures)
December 13, 2018, 11:40 am
Key scene from ‘Beale Street’ features a kippah-clad and ‘loving’ Dave Franco
By Stephen Silver
Danish soldiers guard the Jewish Synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark, on September 29, 2017. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/AFP/Getty Images)
December 13, 2018, 11:40 am
The latest poll on anti-Semitism in Europe looks bad. Trust me: It’s true.
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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