Culture

Could a Jewish NHL lawyer become the first woman to head a men’s pro sports league?

Jessica Berman has moved up the league’s corporate ladder while tending to her ill husband and raising funds for his rehab institute.

Auschwitz ‘showers’ for tourists cool off some, offend others

As temperatures neared 100 degrees, museum officials thought the mists of water were a good way to beat the heat …

Turns Out Rav Kook Was a Vegetarian Renegade

While vegetarianism is not an official tenet of Orthodox Jewish belief, certain scholars feel the Torah suggests that Jews should abstain from eating meat. Abraham Isaac Kook—the late Torah scholar, and legal authority, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Mandate Palestine—was one such thinker. While the Russian-born Kook is better remembered for his Zionist […]