op/ed: Commemoration is Key to Fighting Antisemitism
by Jared Shore (Calgary AB) – On Monday, January 27, the City of Calgary will, for the first-time, recognize and commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day…
Opinion
Holocaust survivors will soon be gone. Now it’s up to us to speak out against hate.
by Ronald S. Lauder NEW YORK (JTA) — It is a fact well-documented and well worth repeating: Within 25 years, it is likely that no…
Want your interfaith kids to love Hanukkah? Expose them to Jewish traditions year-round.
by Roberta Rosenthal Kwall CHICAGO (JTA) — During a season where signs of Christmas seem to be on every corner, many Jewish parents in interfaith families…
This Holocaust-themed figure skating costume is just the sport’s latest to cause scandal
by Stacy Mintzer Herlihy CALDWELL, N.J. (JTA) — Figure skating costumes have a long and sometimes ridiculous history. Until about the 1930s, women were expected to…
Op/Ed: As Ethiopian Jews celebrate Sigd, we’re still fighting for inclusion in Israel
by Shlomit Bukaya RAMLA, Israel (JTA) — This year, American Thanksgiving and the Ethiopian-Israeli Sigd Festival fall just one day apart. The Sigd Festival is…