





Arts & Culture
Swiss historical drama ‘Labyrinth of Peace’ shatters the myth of Switzerland’s neutrality in WWII
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By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
It’s Switzerland in 1945 and the war has just ended. A group of deeply traumatized, ragged-looking...
Northern Virginia Picks Its Top New Jewish Play
A swift-moving comic satire that pits two ambitious social media interns against each other marketing the state of Israel was the top vote-getter Sunday...
Choice Offerings at JxJ
This year’s 10-day JxJ D.C. Jewish Film x Music Festival runs from May 11 through 21, at locations in the District, Bethesda and Fairfax,...
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Nation and World
Event in Berlin marks one of Germany’s largest-ever gatherings for its ex-Soviet Jewish community
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By Larry Luxner
BERLIN — It was hard to overlook the symbolism: the city that once was the epicenter of Nazi Germany hosting a massive...
New all-digital Hunger Museum charts US response to food insecurity through a Jewish lens
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By Larry Luxner
An 1888 portrait of Ellen Swallow Richards and her all-female home economics class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A 1915 campaign...
How one special Pink Day helps save and support cancer patients
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By Eric Berger
When Rachel Wojnilower was an undergraduate at American University in Washington, D.C., she did all kinds of activities with her...
Top Picks
- As David Cohen becomes CIA’s No. 2, Jews appear to have smoother sailing at security agencies
WASHINGTON (JTA) — David Cohen’s path to second in command at the Central Intelligence Agency is, in many respects, a typical one in Washington. A ...
- What are ‘Judeo-Christian values’? Analyzing a divisive term
A debate that reveals deep political differences
- Shaare Torah preschoolers and families celebrate diversity with ‘Chik Chak Shabbat’
Shaare Torah Early Childhood Center turned anger over a book banning in Florida into a celebration of the preschool’s diversity last week. A censored book ...
- Jewish lives lost to the coronavirus
Chabad.org is working on a project to record and recall every member of the Jewish community who has perished during this plague. Yaakov Abayev ● ...
- In a Chanukah mood with Gary Rosenthal
In a sense, Gary Rosenthal has been part of hundreds of thousands of lives over four-plus decades, whether in Jewish rituals that include weddings and ...
Food and Dining
Passover Fondue. Fun-do!
Passover is a joyous holiday and, in addition to the important rituals it involves, it delivers festivity and fun. With that in mind, we...
A very 2023 history of Jewish delis in America
There’s a lot of nostalgia to behold on a tour of “I’ll Have What She’s Having,” a historical view of Jewish delicatessens in America,...
Sufganyot : Fried, filled donuts for Chanukah
By Jessica Grann
Many of us live in places without a good bakery to buy donuts for Chanukah. It’s very satisfying to make them for...