6 new children’s books for the Jewish New Year
By Penny Schwartz (JTA) — A Rosh Hashanah apple cake bake-off fit for reality television and another installment in the Scarlet and Sam series from the…
Literature
Is there anything Jewish mama Rain Pryor — Richard’s daughter — can’t do?
by Arielle Kaplan This article originally appeared on Kveller. Rain Pryor Vane may be the daughter of the controversial late comedian Richard Pryor, but she…
How Mad magazine taught me to think like a furshlugginer Jewish intellectual
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Mad magazine is on life support, and I can’t say I’m either surprised or all that sad about it. DC…
As a queer Jew, learning Anne Frank was bisexual is a game-changer
by Yonah Bex Gerber This story originally appeared on Alma. Like many American children, I first read Anne Frank’s diary in school. And like many…
‘Communal Solidarity’ explores Jewish influx to Winnipeg’s North End from 1882-1930
Review by Regan Treewater-Lipes (EJNews) – Dr. Arthur Ross, a professor in the Politics and Public Administration Department at Ryerson University in Toronto, has recently…