Last night's episode of "Jeopardy!" allowed me to work Jewish day schools, Ulysses S. Grant, Ovid's advice about Shabbat cruising, R.E.M. and more into a single story. My day is downhill from here. jta.org/2024/03/05/cul…

About that (kind of weird!) antisemitism ad you just saw during the Academy Awards jta.org/2024/03/08/cul…

Got up early to get caught up on some things and it worked! Now I know every theory on the internet about the royal family AMA

I was surprised by how much I learned from this Asaf Elia-Shalev interview with the volunteer bureaucrat leading the effort to allocate a historic outpouring of US Jewish philanthropy to Israel jta.org/2024/03/13/isr…

Daniel Perez, officially missing since Oct. 7, was declared dead today. JTA covered his family's gut-wrenching decision to go ahead with his brother's wedding 10 days after the attack. "We are part of a people that sanctifies life," his father told us. jta.org/2023/10/27/lif…

This article somehow does not coin the term "urban boom loop" — where falling commercial rent prices in cities that can withstand property tax declines allow for exciting businesses that draw new residents — so let the record show that I am doing it now theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Back on my shit. Please give sick-night streaming suggestions for someone who likes romcom trash.

Now for something completely, delightfully different — with a quiz!

have never felt more Jewish than realizing that some people would experience this as a draw

If you're invested in understanding Israel, this is the most important story you can read today.

This speculative story set in 2053 is the most optimistic thing you can read about Israel/Palestine today. It suggests (as others have) that the tide will turn when women lead (ht DZ Kalman 🇺🇸🇨🇦) themontrealreview.com/Fiction/Lookin…

The pain in our dispatch from the streets of Tel Aviv this Israeli Independence Day is palpable. “It’s hard to admit this but I’m not feeling anything. I’m emotionally disconnected,” one mother told our reporter. jta.org/2024/05/13/isr…

Some breaking news in the Jewish world: Hebrew Union College is ending its longstanding ban on students in interfaith relationships. jta.org/2024/06/20/rel…

JD Vance's chief of staff is a Jewish guy from New Jersey who once interned for Hillary Clinton — and Asaf Elia-Shalev talked to his childhood rabbi jta.org/2024/07/30/uni…

Tim Walz wrote a master's thesis in 2001 about Holocaust education, in which he argued for changes to how most schools handled the subject. JTA | Jewish news obtained it — and talked to former students about his school's approach to teaching the Holocaust jta.org/2024/08/06/pol…

It's official: Canada revokes the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund — and another Jewish nonprofit that directs donations to Israel, the Ne'eman Foundation jta.org/2024/08/12/isr…

I wasn't able to go to this year's Ishay Ribo concert at MSG so I revisited my story from last year. Wow, remembering a world where Oct. 7 hadn't happened yet ... jta.org/2023/09/05/ny/…

Jewish communities tend to join the resistance against anti-immigrant rhetoric. Not in Springfield, Ohio. Andrew Lapin talked to the rabbi of the city's only synagogue and found out why jta.org/2024/09/19/uni…

Are Christians coming for an election about Israel that's meant just for Jews? “Some members of our elections committee expressed concerns about Messianic Jews, or Jews for Jesus, or others voting," the American Zionist Movement's head told Asaf Elia-Shalev jta.org/2024/12/04/isr…

The Google snapshot for Iran's Natanz nuclear facility right now