Why Is it Still So Freakin’ Hard To Be a Jewish Kid at Christmas?
By Sara Laufer (Kveller via JTA) – Turns out, it is still hard to be the Jewish kid at Christmastime. Even in 2018. Even in…
Opinion
Op/ Ed: There is no religious excuse for not vaccinating your kids
By Alan Kadish and Edward C. Halperin NEW YORK (JTA) — Opposition to vaccination on political and religious grounds has been swaying parents across the…
Stan Lee gave comic books permission to be more Jewish
by Arie Kaplan (JTA) — When Stan Lee died on Nov. 12 at 95, he left behind a vast legacy. Between 1961 and 1969, his…
Anxious? Angry? Here’s Why We Have to Keep Going.
By Melissa Cohen (Kveller via JTA) – “I’m so scared for your synagogue,” my (non-Jewish) mother said to me as we were driving the other…
Yes, anti-Semitism is a problem again. No, it is not 1939.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — My father, whose own father changed his unpronounceable last name to Carroll when he came to America, would often tell…