Jewish community reaction to President Obama’s selection of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to fill a U.S. Supreme Court seat is enthusiastic until officials consider what it is, exactly, she stands for.
Industry executives and children’s writers say PJ Library, a 5-year-old program created by businessman and philanthropist Harold Grinspoon that sends new Jewish children’s books to families with young children every month for free, is changing the nature of Jewish children’s publishing.
Lacking the emotional baggage about Yiddish carried by their grandparents, who shunned the mother tongue as a reminder of the ghettos they had left behind in Europe, young Israelis are turning to the language as a point of connection with their Jewish roots.