Sunday Features

‘The Sims’ video game adds Jewish foods, a longtime request of Jewish players

“The Sims team HAVE LISTENED and have finally brought Jewish food to The Sims 4!” tweeted a user who goes by HufflePom who had lobbied for the additions.

Sophie is 85 and survived the Holocaust. Caroline is 29 and new to NYC. Here’s how they became fast friends.

The pair met through a JCC Manhattan senior care initiative and formed a lasting bond.

Yulia, who is also known as Tugra, visited Israel after spending time in Lebanon, Greece and Turkey. (Yehiel Lamesh)

For 5 days, an endangered seal became a celebrity on an Israeli beach. Locals want her back.

Onlookers have swarmed to see Yulia, a rare species of seal weighing hundreds of pounds who researchers say has traveled the eastern Mediterranean.

With goblins, spellcasters and holiday heroes, board game makers are imagining new Jewish worlds

The historian who uncovered the ADL’s spying operation against the far-right John Birch Society

Jason Schwartzman is a cantor and Carol Kane is his bat mitzvah student in comedy ‘Between the Temples’

In ‘Oppenheimer’ trailer, the atomic bomb is born – and Einstein weeps

With 1.6M followers, TikTok influencer Miriam Ezagui teaches the masses about her Orthodox lifestyle

Jewish weavers craft their own heritage at this New Jersey synagogue’s ‘Loom Room’

Steve Guttenberg, and his very Jewish life, take the stage for a play adaptation of his memoir

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