Emma Lazarus’ lifetime was a period of change and challenge in the American Jewish world. Professor Hasia Diner (NYU) and Professor Aviva Ben-Ur (UMass Amherst) assess what the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish communities in late 19th-century New York shared and where they diverged. From the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Read More »

Lawrence Summers, former Harvard president and economic advisor to Presidents Clinton and Obama, offered qualified support for the Occupy Wall Street movement while not always agreeing with its rhetoric and tactics. Read More »

Israel’s automotive revolution enters the test drive phase. Read More »

The Jewish Week had the opportunity to speak with Dr. David Ellenson and Dr. Daniel Gordis about their new book Pledges of Jewish Alleglance: Conversion,Law and Policy-Making In Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa. Dr. David Ellenson and Dr. Read More »

In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Orthodox rabbi, Steve Greenberg, who recently wrote for the Forward about his decision to conduct a same-sex commitment ceremony. Then Josh talks with Nathan Guttman, the Forward’s Washington correspondent, to discuss how the US and Israel are trying to handle Iran. Read More »

Elie Wiesel on The Leon Charney Report of 10/8/2006. Read More »

An inside look at an emergency simulation room used to train IDF medics. Read More »

WebYeshiva is an online yeshiva that offers free classes and shiurim on topics including Torah, Talmud, Gemara, and Mishnah. Read More »

Based on a book by the late Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb, the film From Swastika to Jim Crow tells the little-known story of two different cultures that share elements of a common burden of oppression. Read More »

Alicia Jo Rabins makes songs about women in the bible from their perspective, and the result is affecting and relatable folk-pop which makes you want to re-visit the original stories. This performance features her songs on the characters Lilith, Hannah, Jephthah’s daughter, Hagar, Miriam, Eishet Chayil, and Samson’s first wife. Read More »

Birthright Israel Alumuni community gives individuals the opportunity to celebrate their own Bar or Bat Mitzvah with family and friends in just 8 weeks. Read More »

Rabbi Daniel Roth discusses Parshat Shemot. Rabbi Daniel Roth teaches Talmud and serves as the Director of the Pardes Center for Judaism and Conflict Resolution. Daniel also is the coordinator and teacher of the Pardes Peace and Conflict Track. He holds an MA in Talmud from Hebrew University, a B. Read More »

In conversation with David Green of the JCC of San Francisco, featuring Rabbis Carla Fenves, Micah Hyman and Joshua Strulowitz. Three Rabbis Hailing from the Conservative, Reform and Orthodox movements come together for a discussion on the nature of God, Torah and revelation. Read More »

MOSAIC, CBS 5, interviews explore how Bay Area people’s lives are enriched by diversity of cultural and faith perspectives. In this episode, MOSAIC speaks with Maya Bernstein, Director of Education and Leadership Initiatives at UpStart Bay Area, and Sarah Lefton, Founder & CEO at G-dcast – an UpStarter. Read More »

In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward opinion editor Gal Beckerman and Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman to discuss the fallout from the Iowa caucuses and the outlook for Republican presidential candidates in New Hampshire and beyond. Read More »

James Carroll’s book, Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews, is both a powerful and disturbing analysis of the history of Christian, especially Roman Catholic, dealings with the Jews. He argues that Christians took anti-Semitic forks in the road when they might well have written a less tragic history by following another road. Here, Mr. Read More »

Adrienne Cooper & Zalmen Mlotek – Purim Concert, St. Petersburg, 2003. Read More »

The legendary Yiddish musician and music teacher Adrienne Cooper, who died December 25 at age 65, was remembered at a New Year’s Day memorial service on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Read More »

Mainstream “Alternative” Jewish Communities: Joel Stanley, Director of International Programming for Moishe House and a former, founding resident of Moishe House London. Read More »

It’s is with great sorrow that Beyond the Pale notes the passing of Adrienne Cooper, a luminous vocal artist, interpreter of Yiddish song and social justice activist. The music on today’s show will be from a few of her many recordings. Also on today’s show, a reading of Clare Coss’s play, Sha Sha, with Lynn Cohen, Stephanie Fieger and Ronald Cohen. Read More »