Travel & Culture
Exploring Polonia for a new generation
By ZACHARY KAGAN In January, Catholics across Europe take time to reflect on Christian-Jewish relations. The Italian Catholic church was...
With the Hasidim on Christmas Eve
By URIEL HEILMAN NEW YORK (JTA) — Christmas is a day like any other in most Hasidic neighborhoods in New...
Jewish Montreal: On foot, online, on the page
By NATALIE ROSINSKY My husband and I walked through Jewish history last summer in Montreal. Thanks to guides from the...
Only memories remain of Poland’s Jews
By CARLA WALDEMAR Poland was high on my bucket list. So it was time to check it out, thanks to...
Sukkot in Israel
Haredi men at the “four species” market in the Hasidic town of Bnei Brak, Israel, on Sept. 17. (Photo: Yaakov...
Berman Archives preserve our Jewish history
The archives housed at the U of M comprise more than 1,300 cubic feet of materials, including photographs, scrapbooks, videos,...
At Berlin's Maccabi Games, past is ever-present
Germans and visitors alike reflect on the past, but look towards the future with hope and vigor By HILLEL KUTLER...
New Jewish museum in Poland ‘reveals hope’
The museum is part of a wider movement since the fall of communism to reconnect with the past By RUTH...
Engaging Portland’s ‘elusive newcomers’
By GIL SHEFLER PORTLAND, Ore. (JTA) — Jessica Bettelheim, a business ethics lecturer at Portland State University and a young...
Tribal understandings: Jewish and Navajo spiritual leaders speak of sacred lands
By EDMON J. RODMAN LOS ANGELES (JTA) — A Reform rabbi, a Navajo medicine man and a professor walk into...
