This year’s sixteen-day JAAMM Festival (that’s short for Jewish Arts, Authors, Movies and Music) at the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture is just as JAAMM-packed as it sounds. The extraordinary ...

Judaism possesses an elaborate system that determines what foods Jews can eat and which ones can be eaten together. Rafael Ben-Ari/Photodisc via Getty Images The end of August inaugurated the Hebrew ...

David Shneer is a one-man dynamo when it’s come to bringing into focus the divergent cultural wings of the Jewish diaspora locally, in the past as a professor and director of the Center for Judaic ...

The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...

Inside the trend that’s fueling a massive Jewish food fest on Governor’s Island and a record-breaking Shabbat dinner at the Javits Center. When thousands of hungry Jews descend on Governor Island ...

Hannah Finkelshteyn and Aakef Khan spent a lot of time in the same building even before they met. Khan’s filmmaking classes at Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts often met on the same floor where ...

For many people, Christmas means reconnecting with loved ones, exchanging gifts and bingeing the most poorly conceived movies Hallmark and Netflix are capable of producing. For others, the holiday ...

After 15 years, conductor Yuriy Bekker still manages to find new voices for “A World of Jewish Culture,” the Piccolo Spoleto series of shows and film screenings celebrating Charleston’s Jewish ...

On the opposite side of the spectrum from Miami’s glitzy reputation for fast cars, bootylicious women, and hard partying is the long history of Jewish Cuban families that have shaped South Florida’s ...

Not so fast. A new special from Raanan Hershberg shows how charged times can make for funnier jokes involving anxiety over ...

(RNS) — Growing up in Fez, Morocco, Yona Elfassi was always aware of the history of the city, which has been a center of culture, learning and spirituality since the ninth century. Home to great minds ...