Travel and Food

By JNS.org We all recognize that poppy seed or jam taste when we bite into Hamantaschen on Purim every year. But given the right filling, or dough, the traditional pastry has a lot more to offer. Hailed as the “Queen of Kosher” and the “Jewish Rachael Ray,” best-selling author Jamie Geller is the founder of the Kosher Media Network, publisher

  TEL AVIV (Press Release)–The Maltz Family Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, established by Milton Maltz and his wife Tamar, and Ambassador Alfred Moses and his family, have committed a pair of significant gifts of $5 million each for a combined $10 million to Beit Hatfutsot, The Museum of the Jewish People, in

GARRISON, N.Y. (Press Release) – Some 70 top young Jewish artists from around the world will gather in Garrison, NY on March 23-26, 2014 for the Asylum Arts International Jewish Artist Retreat. The unique networking and learning experience is intended to connect and empower Jewish artists around the world, ultimately to help cultivate an international

By Alex Traiman/JNS.org JERUSALEM– Close to half a million members of Israel’s Haredi public rallied in Jerusalem on Sunday, shutting down roads in and around the city, to protest a proposed bill that would mandate them to participate in the Israel Defense Forces and would criminalize those who refuse conscription. Some political parties—led notably by

NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, Feb. 26,  welcomed Governor Jan Brewer’s veto of legislation that would have been a harmful attack on civil rights.  Arizona’s so-called “religious freedom” bill, driven by opponents of marriage equality, would have provided a legal defense to individuals and businesses who claimed that a “sincerely

By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California –A midlevel thrum filled the rehearsal room at the JCC as nearly seventy actors sat in clusters, largely defined by age, or perhaps by character, here a munchkin, there an Auntie Em.  On this particular Sunday, Joey Landwehr had installed two assistants to oversee the commotion and arrange for

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Well, the superb Fountain Theatre and its resident genius-in-chief, Stephen Sachs, have done it again. They’ve mounted a just-about-perfect production: Chaim Potok’s classic novel My Name is Asher Lev, adapted for the stage by Aaron Posner. Set in 1950s Crown Heights, the Brooklyn home of the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher Jews,

  YEMIN ORDE, Israel (Press Release) — For Eitan, Yemin Orde’s 14-year-old artistic wonder, strengthening his confidence by expressing himself through his beautiful original oil paintings was important to helping him excel in his studies. Eitan and his family arrived in Israel from a small town in northwest France when he was a youngster. He

NEW YORK (Press Release)– On February 19 in Jerusalem, the LEGAL GROUNDS group, which is educating Israelis about and campaigning for Israel’s rights to all of the lands of the Jewish State, including the areas located beyond ‘the Green Line,’ presented its case at the Knesset. This was in the context of a discussion about

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has welcomed reports that the National Football League is considering how to discourage the use of offensive slurs during the course of games. The NFL’s Competition Committee reportedly is contemplating a policy that would penalize a player 15 yards for using discriminatory language — including the