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Jokes, including the Jewish variety, are a staple of Western civilization. Some Jewish jokes have been around for centuries and are passed from generation to generation; others might have made [...]

A MOMENT BIG QUESTION with MADELEINE ALBRIGHT * CHRIS ANDERSON * COLETTE AVITAL LARRY BRILLIANT * SHALOM CARMY * DEEPAK CHOPRA HALEH ESFANDIARI * THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN * MARISOL GARRIDO-MARTINEZ [...]

THE QUESTION WAS ON EVERYONE'S MIND, AND DEBRA KATZ WOKE UP EARLY TO ANSWER IT, over and over, on the morning shows. 'Will your client, Christine Ford, be willing to [...]

From 300 miles away, Roberta Kaplan watched the events unfold: First, Friday night, when 300 men carried torches through the University of Virginia campus, chanting 'blood and soil' and 'Jews [...]

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Millennial are not like other generations. Or so we are told. Defined by the Pew Research Center as anyone born between 1981 and 1996, millenials are now the world's largest [...]

Five years ago, computer scientist Greg Kondrak attended a presentation about the Voynich manuscript, an impenetrable text that has confounded scholars and scientists for centuries. At 240 pages, the manuscript [...]

Rebecca Traister is angry. She is angry, and every day strangers criticize her rage, or tell her she sounds like a fool, or that attractive women should not get angry. [...]

She was raised in a man's world, never picturing herself in the spaces men occupied. 'Girls didn't get bat mitzvahs,' Jacky Rosen says. 'My young self certainly couldn't have imagined [...]

At last count, Tanya Gersh had received more than 700 threatening, hateful and anti-Semitic messages. Even now, one arrives every few days. That may sound like a lot, but it [...]

Alan Alda loves to dig to the root of things. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] He has no patience for jargon, for flimsy logic, for impenetrable lectures. He wants to know: What is [...]

On November 8, the night she picked up the Syrian refugees, Jean Silk had clear instructions: Show them what they need to know, then leave. No conversation about anything other [...]

The days of shame about living in America are over. But can this diverse group of immigrants hold onto their culture? And is there a chance that they can become [...]

For Dovi Scheiner, a synagogue is a place for prayer and pilates, for coffee breaks and comedy and film screenings. But perhaps most importantly, it is a living room. 'The [...]

GOLDA MEIR (1898-1978) Meir was born in Kiev and moved with her family to Milwaukee in 1906, where she was exposed to socialism and Zionism. She persuaded her husband to [...]

What would a Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump presidency mean for American Jews--and the issues they care about? Each candidate has left a trail of hints, promises and commitments. But [...]

More often than not, the word 'Talmudic' isn't about the Talmud. It's a word that politicians and diplomats, in particular, love brandishing to make a point. In the 1970s, it [...]

The article presents the discussion on rabbis and scholars, biblical and historical figures or elders. Topics include identifying role models being a necessary step to emotional intelligence and self-awareness; and Spinoza's inspiring traits showing courage, integrity, love of truth and a realistic optimism despite all keeping the faith in humanity.

My great-grandmother, Sophie, fled Russia at 16. But for the rest of her life, she cooked dishes from the old country, and her grandchildren--my dad, his sisters and dieir cousins--remember [...]

For newly elected members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the work begins right away. Less than two weeks after Election Day, Kathy Manning traveled to Washington, DC from her [...]

This section presents views of several notable people on the knowledge that students need to gain before leaving college. Topics discussed include the analytical skills needed to understand the world critically cited by University of Austin founding president Pano Kanelos, the importance of having skepticism of power and institutions explained by journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, and the exploration of one's passions in college noted by English professor Julia Fisher.

Does the rooster's crow cause the sunrise? The answer seems obvious, if you're a human--but a machine can only understand that the rooster's crow and the sunrise are related, not [...]

Before the bar burned down, Joe Scialom served everyone from English royalty to Indian Sikhs. The Jewish bartender began his career at Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, where he invented his [...]

The article discusses that American Jews like all Americans often overestimate Israel's importance. Israel isn't just a replica of the United States, with the only difference being that in Israel the Jews have guns. Israelis created a new nation, a new culture, a new language, a new identity which was precisely the aim of the original Zionists. Too often, Americans on both the right and the left, project our fantasies and obsessions onto Israel and Israelis.

An interview with joke tellers, writers and scholars Jessica Kirson, Michael Wex and Ruth R. Wisse is presented. Topics include examines that Cohen has officially converted to Catholicism after months of study and is invited to address those gathered for Mass; and focuses on several thoughts the waiter stated to the group of Jewish women sitting in a restaurant.

For the Jewish community, perhaps the biggest success story in genetic testing is Tay-Sachs: The disease is carried by one in 27 Ashkenazi Jews (who come from Eastern Europe), and [...]

When it began, the web series was the open mic night of the internet. Anyone with a camera could post short, TV-show-style videos on sites like YouTube. Beloved for their [...]

'Keep reminding yourself: This is not normal,' warned comedian John Oliver on Last Week Tonight. It was less than a week after Election Day, and the country was just beginning [...]

The article presents the discussion on future of community in the 21st century. Topics include concept of community being central to Judaism and ethos of the Jewish people; human concepts changes with time such as tribe, village, guild, town, neighborhood, union, and fraternity; and instigating by inventions such as the telegraph, telephone, rapid transportation, and the internet.

The 'Beloved Herring Maven' made his radio debut in 1964. The recurring star of Vita Foods commercials, he spoke in his 'every-body's-favorite-uncle voice,' as The New York Times put it, [...]

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump proclaimed at a rally that Hillary Clinton 'got schlonged' in the 2008 primaries. Schlong, when used as a noun, is a Yiddish word for [...]

The article highlights the struggle and life of Debra Katz, America's most famous survivor of sexual assault. It mentions her suffering from breast cancer years before and worked for decades on sexual harassment cases; also focuses on her recognition as top #MeToo lawyers along with her duties ranged from meaningful to mundane: working on amicus briefs, and reading transcripts.

When white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville this summer, they shouted, 'You will not replace us!'--eventually shifting the phrase, alarmingly, to 'Jews will not replace us!' For most watching across the [...]

Donald E. Heller, who will become provost at the University of San Francisco in February, has spent much of his career at large universities, where he has done research on [...]

''The costs are largely the same between open-access journals and non-open-access journals,' said Michael Eisen, a co-founder of the open-access project FLOS.' --'What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs,' Ellen Wexler, The [...]

DAYS AFTER a rampage in San Bernardino, Calif., left 14 people dead, the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump seized on the religion of the shooters, calling for 'a total and [...]

WASHINGTON AS THE Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in Abigail Noel Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the latest in a long line of cases to challenge [...]

FOR ACADEMIA.EDU, numbers matter. Numbers are how the website promotes itself--more than 29 million registered users have posted more than eight million academic papers to the site, the 'about' page [...]

Nassau hall was closing for the night, but the students stayed. Around 40 of them spent the night of Wednesday, November 18, in the building, sitting in the office of [...]

The article discusses how female clergy have transformed Jewish Life, ritual and practice focusing on history of female clergy in Judaism and the challenges faced by Jewish women when trying to obtain a Jewish education. Topics include the spread of Hasidism and gender differences faced by female clergy. Rabbis Sally Priesand, Amy Eilberg, and Avi Shafran talks about limitations on the role of women and transformation of Jewish Leadership.

The country club was 20 minutes away from the homeless shelter. Jacob Mosley, who grew up in an assortment of apartments and friends' houses and homeless shelters in Michigan, was [...]

Just before midnight on November 12, nearly 200 students gathered outside the house of Peter Salovey, Yale University's president. Passing around a megaphone, they read him their demands. Among other [...]

Before Christopher Friend could complete the doctorate he had been working toward for years at the University of Central Florida, his committee chair needed to check his dissertation for plagiarism. [...]

A Twitter-fueled furor erupted last month after the Renaissance Society of America said that the database firm ProQuest had canceled the group's subscription to a key collection of texts. The [...]

It was the kind of exit designed to make a statement. Late last month, all six editors and all 31 editorial-board members resigned from Lingua, a prominent linguistics journal, after [...]

COLLEGE TECHNOLOGY officials appear more optimistic these days about open-source textbooks and open educational resources --teaching and learning materials that can be used at no cost. According to the latest [...]

Most of the time, Maira Salim prayed in the library. She prayed with other members of the Muslim Student Association, in a study room that the organization tried to reserve [...]

When Patrick Awuah founded Ashesi University in his native country, Ghana, in 2002, he had a plan: Identify the nation's future leaders, and give them a liberal-arts education. Classes started [...]