Judaism

Combining short lectures by renowned faculty with lively small-group discussions, this course will give students a rare glimpse into the creative lives of Jewish women.

Rokhl’s Golden City: The rise of ‘nitl nakht,’ and the outsider appeal of the supernatural

Zum Neujahr der Bäume geht es im Jüdischen Garten in Marzahn um Kultur und Naturschutz

Past and future collide in this retelling of the Tower of Babel story including angels and giant mecha robots!

In 1979, when Henry Sapoznik founded the klezmer band Kapelye, he was among a cohort of passionate young musicians, musicologists and cultural workers who sought to reclaim Eastern European Jewish music and link themselves to still-living masters of that tradition. It was hard work. Relatively little had been done to preserve or transmit the culture of Eastern European Jewish immigrants in America.

I heard that you shouldn't start learning Kabbalah until you're 40 years old. Is this true? Why? Why 40 in particular?

"Doing the work of public history in neighborhoods with diverse, complex, and contested histories might implicate all of us in processes of real estate development, displacement, and erasure — regardless of our intentions."

Trotz aller Verwandtschaft zwischen den Festen: Es gibt viele gute Gründe, Weihnukka nicht zu feiern

Die Geschichte des Festes anders erzählt – mit einer modernen Deutung der altjudäischen Botschaft

8 million views, 10,000 comments and a flood of gas chamber jokes.

Hava Nagila. Israeli Folk Music. Israeli Music. Jewish Music

Some meditators sit on the same cushion in the same place every day. When that happens, not just the practice ...

Vier Jüdinnen und Juden sprechen über das Leben in der DDR, die Zuwanderung, ihre Verbindung zu Israel und 30 Jahre Wiedervereinigung

For the first time, by flipping the genders of each character, I felt that this ancient story was speaking to me directly.

Eine (extrem subjektiv) kommentierte Dokumentation der Causa »Patrilinearität«, die durch Max und Maxim losgetreten wurde.

Muss man von einer jüdischen Mutter abstammen, um als jüdische Stimme im Diskurs zu gelten? Darüber streiten gerade die Publizisten Maxim Biller und Max Czollek. In Wirklichkeit gehe es dabei aber um etwas anderes, meint der Journalist Ofer Waldman.

Elaine Leeder will discuss eight Jewish women who identified as anarchists, active during the 1920s to 1950s, and explore the complete sexual freedom that these women sought at a time when conventionality and conformity was the norm.

A new biography explores the life of Hugo Marcus, a gay Jew who played a key role in the establishment of Islam in Germany before fleeing from Hitler

Leftist seders often use versions of the Passover text that articulate contemporary political commitments—but the classical haggadah allows us to make our politics our own.

This passover, pre order the incredible revival of the Israeli Black Panthers’ Protest Haggadah from 1971 by @NewIsraelFund & @JewishCurrents!   Inspired by the Black Power movement, Israeli Black Panthers formed in the 70's to protest anti-mizrahi racism.

We are building a bigger tent for nonbinary Jews through a third-gender grammar systematics for Hebrew, guided by our Torah and Talmud that teach us to rejoice that which cannot be neatly categorized.