Travel and Food

Published by TravelPulse The Israeli Tourism Ministry has announced that fully vaccinated or recovered foreign nationals, including U.S. tourists, can resume travel to Israel for the first time in 19 months. This follows a successful pilot reopening program started in May 2021, which allowed only select, organized tour groups of immunized foreigner visitors. Israel’s Prime […]

By Lizzie Rubin Ingredients 6 strands of dough in equal size and length Instructions Start with the starting position. Six strands of challah and 7 positions on the table: position 1, position 2, position 3, middle, position 4, position 5, and position 6. In the starting position, the 6 strands of challah are pinched together

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law today called on the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to investigate an incident where participants in a rally hosted by the UMass chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) intimidated, harassed, and assaulted an individual for being pro-Israel. The “unlawful

The Complete Jewish Pilgrim is Howard Kramer’s fourth book in the Complete Pilgrim series. Kramer, a peripatetic, created the series by touring nearly thirty countries, forty American cities, and taking hundreds of pictures of the “greatest” places of the world’s religions during the last three decades. [ Fred Reiss, Ed.D]

By Lizzie Rubin SAN DIEGO — There’s nothing like an audience and an impending deadline to put your goals into motion. In 2017, I decided that, despite never having baked or cooked anything in my life, I wanted to learn to make challah. I told everyone I had wanted to make challah to connect to

Police are searching for an unidentified African-American woman seen on surveillance video pouring gasoline in front of a Jewish school in Brooklyn, N.Y., before setting the liquid on fire. The incident occurred Thursday night at Yeshiva of Flatbush in a heavily Jewish neighborhood. [JNS.org]

Last week, at Friday night services, I had the great joy of watching dozens of second graders singing Hinei Ma Tov and Oseh Shalom while their parents and grandparents practically jumped out of their seats to get a better view. It was a truly joyful (and utterly chaotic) scene; the kind of community moment we have had so little of over the past 18 months. It has been quite a few years since my own children stood on the bimah singing their hearts out with their classmates, but I felt those parents’ joy; I felt the pride of the congregation in those 7 and 8 year olds. I felt what it meant to everyone in that room to have a beautiful, lively, multi-generational, chaotic, communal Jewish experience. And that experience was only possible through the tireless work of our Jewish communal professionals and lay leaders, who have continued to hold our community close and are bringing so much energy and creativity to Jewish experiences. [Heidi Gantwerk]

A car belonging to a campus Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Santa Monica, Calif., was defaced on Friday morning at the synagogue parking lot. [JNS.org]

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — StandWithUs San Diego strongly condemned antisemitic conspiracy theories and demonization of Israel during a recent panel hosted by the San Diego County Democratic Party (SDCDP) Central Committee. One panelist falsely accused Israel of being complicit in the horrific murder of George Floyd, simply because some senior U.S. law enforcement officials