Art and Culture and Jewish Resilience

Art and Culture and Jewish Resilience

The CANVAS Compendium: Dispatches from the New Jewish Renaissance You must praise the mutilated world. Adam Zagajewski Next week is Tisha B’Av, the Ninth of Av, when we commemorate the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. It’s a solemn day,...
How to Celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month

How to Celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month

Jewish children orphaned as a result of World War I arriving in the United States, 1921. Photo: Library of Congress.  It wasn’t always a month. Back in 1980, President Jimmy Carter declared the third week in April to be “Jewish Heritage Week,” a...