The first sound in “Between the Temples” is a piercing blast from a shofar. Several scenes of the new film are set in a synagogue and depict familiar Jewish tableaus including bat mitzvah ...
(JTA) — According to the Jewish Virtual Library, 550,000 Jews served in the United States armed forces during World War II. There were 38,338 Jewish casualties, while 26,000 Jewish soldiers ...
“This is the complicated, real truth of what it means to be Jewish in America right now,” writes a mother and rabbi’s wife from suburban Philadelphia. Even though it wasn’t shattered glass ...