What It’s Like To Parent Through a Migraine
By Morra Aarons-Mele (Kveller via JTA) — I first experienced the nightmare parents call the “witching hour” one snowy Boston winter, when I was stuck…
Opinion
op/ed: Jews make news, but when is it Jewish news?
By Andrew Silow-Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) — “Is So-and-So Jewish? How Jewish is she? Find out if she’s Jewish.” I often joke that JTA reporters…
Op/ Ed: Larry David’s Holocaust joke was an offense — against comedy
By Andrew Silow-Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) — In a famous episode of “Seinfeld,” Jerry is upset that his dentist, a recent convert to Judaism, is already telling…
op/ed: Here’s why I believed Elie Wiesel’s accuser
By Lior Zaltzman NEW YORK (JTA) — When I read the headline of Jenny Listman’s Medium piece — “When I was nineteen years old, Elie Wiesel…
Conservative movement doubles down on intermarriage and its rabbis ask why
By Ben Sales NEW YORK (JTA) — “It doesn’t help.” “I don’t know how it happened or why it happened.” “The most common response I’m…