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Tales from the heart: Hugs and couscous in the ancient city of Tzfat
Category : Latest Destination
With its archaic cobblestoned streets and mountainous backdrop, this small, quaint city is where my grandparents built their home and their family. I arrive at my aunt’s house in Tzfat and knock on the door. I’m only being polite — everybody keeps their doors unlocked in this quaint Upper Galilee city, also called Safed or […]
Read MoreTuesday, December 14th, 2021
Traditional Japanese candles and tops get a Hanukkah spin in Kyoto
Category : Featured Article
Soon after Rabbi Moti Grumach moved to Kyoto, Japan, about three years ago to serve as an emissary there for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, he realized that a local craft dovetailed neatly with Jewish traditions. Warosoku, or candles made from the fruit of the haze tree — or Japanese sumac, sometimes called the wax tree — […]
Read MoreMonday, December 6th, 2021
Compelling New Book Investigates Anti-Zionist Conspiracy Theories in Academia
Category : Editor's Picks
In a world of fake news and hype, what distinguishes theories from conspiracy theories? Do certain issues and rhetoric, such as anti-Zionism, receive a protected platform on university campuses around the United States? Is there an anti-Jewish bias in academia, and if so, does that create problems in other areas of society? Is there a […]
Read MoreWednesday, December 1st, 2021
The Jaffa, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Tel Aviv welcomes guests with the reopening of Israel’s borders to international tourism
Category : Featured Hotel
The Jaffa, a Luxury Collection Hotel, welcomes back international guests with the reopening of Israel to international tourism after 18 months of closure. Visitors from all over the world can re-discover this one-of-a-kind, award-winning hotel which combines 4,000 years of history, landmark architecture, and contemporary luxury hospitality. The Jaffa Hotel and Residences are situated in […]
Read MoreThursday, November 18th, 2021
On Kristallnacht anniversary, Austria dedicates new memorial to murdered Jews
Category : Blog
Austria dedicated a new memorial to murdered Jews this week, on the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht. The Shoah Wall of Names Memorial is Austria’s first public Holocaust memorial and is seen as a gesture that the European country is finally taking public responsibility for its past – something Austria has been notorious for avoiding for decades. The […]
Read MoreFriday, November 12th, 2021
Unsettling: Jews, Whiteness, & Incest in American Pop Culture by Eli Bromberg
Category : Editor's Picks
Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted the representation of white male Jewish masculinity in the 1990s. Chapters on Woody Allen, Roseanne Barr, and Henry Roth demonstrate how media coverage of their respective incest denials (Allen), allegations (Barr), and confessions (Roth) intersect with a history of sexual antisemitism, while an introductory chapter on Jewish second-wave […]
Read MoreThursday, November 11th, 2021
Israel welcomes individual tourists back into the country
Category : Travel Services
A watershed mark in the corona pandemic: As of November 1, individual tourists may enter Israel, under certain conditions. This is the moment so many travelers – and Israel’s tourism industry – have been waiting for since the pandemic shut out much of foreign travel through Ben-Gurion International Airport in March 2020. Effective November 1, […]
Read MoreSunday, November 7th, 2021
New non-stop flights to Madeira on Azores Airlines
Category : Travel Services
The Madeira Promotion Bureau is thrilled to announce new non-stop flights from New York (JFK) to the Madeira Islands (FNC) via SATA Azores through our partner Inovtravel, a Portugal-based tour operator and DMC offering the perfect opportunity for your clients to experience Madeira. This is the first non-stop flight ever from a major U.S. gateway […]
Read MoreMonday, November 1st, 2021
The Alfred Dreyfus Museum opens in France
Category : Blog
French President Emmanuel Macron has inaugurated near Paris what is believed to be the world’s first museum on the wrongful and antisemitic persecution of the late army captain Alfred Dreyfus. The new museum, inaugurated in the suburb of Médan, features at least 500 documents including photographs, court papers and personal objects from the 8-year ordeal […]
Read MoreThursday, October 28th, 2021
The Jewish camp of Compiègne-Royallieu, 1941-1943
Category : Featured Article
Built in 1913, Royallieu military barracks, which extended over 20 hectares, was transformed into an internment camp for 1944 to 1941 political prisoners Part of the former camp Royallieu (3 buildings on 24) was preserved to become the Memorial internment and deportation. About 50 000 people, men, and women (political prisoners, resistance fighters, Jews, foreigners) […]
Read MoreTuesday, October 26th, 2021