Ashkenazi
Most Israeli Jews fast on Yom Kippur, while over half take part in prayer services, survey finds
Only a small number of those reported to be fasting partially or not at all are older people, according to the survey data, suggesting that the reasons are more linked to health or principle.
Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt the Ashkenaz Jewish music and culture festival in Toronto
The Holocaust silenced millions of Yiddish voices - musicians are bringing them back
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community feels misunderstood. Here’s why - opinion
Can the many schisms in Israeli society ever be reconciled? – opinion
Today the conflict between Right and Left is still ideological, though the great ideological and political leaders on both sides, all of them modest-living men, are long gone.
Jewish organizations can do better on diversity
Our community will suffer a loss if mainstream Jewish communal institutions are not able to be more effective in engaging Jews of color.
Tuesday afternoons learning Yiddish with Chava in Arnona
Chava was born and raised in Mexico in a Yiddish-speaking home.
A global Jewish cookbook
A multicultural book of recipes from Europe, the Middle East, Ethiopia and beyond
Discovering my maternal roots through a simple swab of saliva
The Jerusalem Post took a mitochondrial DNA test with Family Tree DNA and local start-up Igentify to trace back my maternal ancestry
The rift between the first and second Israel
There are numerous impressive Mizrahi intellectuals, who express radical positions of various political shades, and who share the anger and rage about the continuing discrimination against Mizrahim.
The myth of Jewish privilege and intellectual superiority
Ironically, if there is indeed a secret to Jewish genius, it’s precisely that Jews don’t believe the brain is an operating system you download from your parents
New York Times: Bret Stephens article on Ashkenazi Jews was 'fact-checked'
According to POLITICO, Bennet did not specify how Stephens's references to claims of Ashkenazi Jewish intellectual superiority passed the editing process.
New York Times columnist slammed for article on Jewish intelligence
“The Secret of Jewish Genius” published on Saturday had received nearly 700 comments on the online edition of The Times by Sunday afternoon when the comments were closed.
Don’t silence Middle Eastern and North African Jews
To a group of radical anti-Zionist students at Vassar, however, all of this made me a threat on campus. As an Israeli who knows a thing or two about legitimate threats, this was chilling.