Like many musicians, 26-year-old Olivia Frances’ songwriting started with young love. A seventh grade crush – and the music of Taylor Swift – inspired her to write her first song, “The […]
In November 2021, Zak and Elliot Draznin felt spiritually empty. The queer Jewish couple had graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 2020 into the mostly-virtual Jewish life of the […]
In 2018, the Cincinnati Skirball Museum hosted “Jewish Cincinnati: A Photographic History,” showcasing 18 photos of historic Cincinnati synagogues merged with old documents and images of their locations in the city […]
Rabbi Ari Ballaban seems to be a perpetual optimist: Where others might simply see antisemitism, the new director of the Cincinnati Jewish Community Relations Council sees an opportunity to make the […]
On Oct. 19, Whitney Fisch, executive director of Hillel at Miami University, was attending a funeral in Columbus when she received an unexpected question from her staff: Did anyone take […]
JERUSALEM – “Are your tefillin plastic?” they said, gathering around in a horde of black and white to poke, and prod, and laugh. “Do you wear tefillin on Shabbat? Of […]
Just 48 hours after surviving a hostage situation at Congregation Beth Israel, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker has been speaking out about his ordeal. He spoke to CBS in an interview posted […]
Jerusalem is to some American Jews what New York is to some aspiring actors: a good place to wash up for a while and dream of better things. And when […]
When it comes to the disruption of modern American Jewish life, no group is more scrutinized than Millennials, the generation roughly between the ages of 18-35. In their lifetimes, the […]
What do Snow White’s dwarfs have to do with Hannukah? About as much as garden gnomes have to do with the technically insignificant but widely celebrated Festival of Lights. Which […]