Utah Public Radio

Greetings from Jerusalem, whose holy sites host some of the oldest colonies of nesting swifts

The scythe-winged birds have nested in the cracks of the Western Wall and other holy sites in Jerusalem for thousands of ...
Cleveland Jewish News

San Francisco Giants Jewish Heritage Night celebrates Jewish culture, identity

Rabbi Yosef Langer of Chabad of San Francisco told JNS that blowing the shofar has been “bringing people together since the ...
The Blogs | The Times of Israel on MSNOpinion

Fabulous beasts and winding streets: Prague, Kafka, and the Jewish condition

The famous author inherited the city's tradition of mystery and sharpened it into stories about how the uncanny is woven into ...
The Forward

Mozambique’s only synagogue has been keeping Judaism alive in the country for a century

Inside the Honen Dalim synagogue in Maputo, Mozambique, a security team of men in suits wearing colorful kippot swept the ...
The New York Times

At the Great Nosh, Food Lovers Celebrate Jewish Food and Culture

New Yorkers descended on Governors Island for the Great Nosh, a festival devoted to Jewish cuisine and culture. New Yorkers descended on Governors Island for the Great Nosh, a festival devoted to ...
Rolling Stone

All 100 Winners of the ‘Las Culturistas’ Culture Awards Are (Sort of) Here

The winners of the most important, cherished, and coveted awards in all of pop culture were finally revealed tonight (well, at least some of them) as comedians Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers hosted the ...
The Forward

British Museum postpones a Jewish Culture Month lecture, citing ‘disruption’ concerns

(JTA) — The British Museum has canceled a lecture titled ‘‘Ancient Israel and Judah” that was scheduled to take place today on its premises. In a statement on Wednesday, the museum said the decision ...
ABC 10 News

Jewish American Heritage Month: San Diego's Jewish community reflects city's diversity in culture and faith

Anchor Jared Aarons gets an inside look into San Diego's diverse and growing Jewish community. SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - San Diego is home to 100,000 people who identify as Jewish, making up about 2% of the ...
High Times

A Psychedelic Jewish Experience

Steve Marcus creates art at the intersection of cannabis culture and counterculture to take Jewish art to new heights. Jews have been a distinct tribal people for approximately 4,000 years. In that ...
The New Yorker

A Childhood in Jewish New Orleans

It’s a standard trope in portrayals of assimilated Jews to open with a scene built around a Christmas tree. That’s how Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” and Alfred Uhry’s “Last Night of Ballyhoo” begin, ...
Pew Research Center

Where in the world are people proud of their country’s culture and lifestyle?

This Pew Research Center report looks at what makes people feel proud of their country. We asked an open-ended question allowing people in 25 countries to share, in their own words, what makes them ...
Wall Street Journal

The Jewish Museum’s Muddled Reinstallation

Before paying homage—despite some misgivings—to a major reinstallation of its collections recently unveiled at the Jewish Museum in New York, it might help to understand the context for this $14.5 ...