Judaism

academic zine on appropriation & antisemitism in western occult movements

Young people get organized in Yiddishland

Zu den vielen guten Dingen, die vom Erinnerungsjahr "1700 Jahre jüdisches Leben in deutschen Landen" bleiben werden, gehört der Podcast #2021JLID. In einer sehr faszinierenden Folge interviewte die Journalistin Shelly Kupferberg den Ex-Haredim Akiva Weinberg,…

Faux-Hebrew fonts have been around for more than a century, but were the origins of this lettering Jewish or antisemitic?

A Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Ally Haggadah

The Mourner’s Kaddish is perhaps the most radical — and misunderstood — prayer in the siddur. The Kaddish is often ...

Denominational Differences on Conversion. Contemporary Issues with Judaism and Conversion. Converting to Judaism. Jewish Lifecycle.

Über verschiedene Sammlungen von jiddischen Zitaten, Sprichwörtern und Sentenzen

Just about every person who is Black and Jewish has inevitably been met with surprise upon sharing their identities. Widespread ...

Why do Jews put stones on graves instead of leaving flowers? Is there a ritual or blessing that goes along with this practice?

#Rache in jüdischer #Gegenwartsliteratur ist das Thema der 7. Folge unseres Podcasts zur Ausstellung "Rache. Geschichte und Fantasie." Es unterhalten sich Max Czollek @rubenmcloop und @MirjamWenzel mit Literaturwissenschaftler Sebastian Schirrmeister.https://t.co/MWwWB3L2at— Jüdisches Museum FFM (@jmfrankfurt) May 26, 2022

A commitment to halacha is not contradicted by pro-choice beliefs, write the leaders of two Orthodox seminaries.

Isabel Frey reflects on the challenges and possibilities of performing Yiddish music as a Jewish performer in Germany and Austria beyond the insulated Berlin kl

The answer lies in the longstanding misguided and racist assumption by TV commissioners that the only people who would be interested in a show about Jews would be other Jews

Persian amulet made around 1930 featuring everyone's favorite Lilith scarers (Sanoi, Sananoi, and Samangalaf)https://t.co/ZGxJOm2pQu pic.twitter.com/lFexMYbVXc— elizabeth (@shvlman) May 11, 2022

An exploration of Jewishness in contemporary Russia.

Journal of Germanic Linguistics

Marijuana, as it turns out, has a history that goes all the way back to the Mishna and the Talmud where it is known as "cannabus."

I recently learned I’d been misled about Passover for my entire life.

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.

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.

CYCO books is not New York’s last Yiddish bookstore. Yiddish bookstores do a brisk trade in Hassidic Brooklyn, where some 150,000 people still speak the

Jewish Currents is proud to release Black Ox Orkestar’s first recording in more than a decade.

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.