Culture

The most significant Jewish political story of the day is the news that an African American politician might be challenging a first-term African American incumbent in a majority African American congressional district near Washington. That’s because the race has the potential to become a proxy war between J Street and supporters of more traditional pro-Israel […]

Jonathan Mark of The New York Jewish Week reviews a new/old collection of Yiddish music, that also includes an actual Sholom Eliechem reading: Sometimes the wall between this world and the Other World is as thin as the walls of an East Side tenement; one can hear the dead carrying on in Yiddish, playing accordions, cracking jokes. One […]