Culture

A Jewish family sold this Kandinsky painting to survive the Nazis. Amsterdam is keeping it anyway.

Holland believes the public has a right to access prized artworks, and some Holocaust restitution claimants are crying foul.

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 18, 2019 4:38 pm

Rabbi isn’t happy that the country’s first weed cafe is opening across the street from her synagogue

Denise Eger thinks it will give her congregants a contact high on the way to synagogue.

July 18, 2019 2:28 pm

Jewish comedians aim to deflate modern anti-Semitism with laughs

Elon Gold and Mordechai Rosenfeld, aka Modi, teaming up for the first time at a Montreal festival, follow the Mel Brooks edict: Humor is the greatest weapon.

July 17, 2019 5:21 pm

Students meditate as part of the morning prayer at Romemu Yeshiva in New York, N.Y. on July 16, 2019. The yeshiva combines intensive study of Jewish text with mindfulness and mysticism. (Ben Sales)

Tai chi with tefillin: Inside New York’s quirkiest yeshiva

By Ben Sales July 17, 2019 5:20 pm

At 49, I changed my first name. Here’s why.

By Erin Gordon July 17, 2019 4:02 pm

from Kveller

Why cold soups are really Jewish

By Susan Barocas July 17, 2019 3:37 pm

from The Nosher

‘Glee’ was actually pretty Jewish

By Julia Metraux July 17, 2019 3:26 pm

from Alma

Argentina’s national library opens first-ever section on Holocaust and anti-Semitism

By JTA Staff July 17, 2019 12:00 pm

Donors suspend funding for Poland Jewish history museum

By Katarzyna Markusz July 17, 2019 11:53 am

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Chris Evans is an Israeli Mossad agent in film coming to Netflix this month

By Emily Burack July 17, 2019 11:30 am

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