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Detroit
on the move It did not take long after the Great Recession hit in 2007 for Detroit to emerge as a symbol of American crisis. Most of Detroit’s young Jewish professionals have chosen to chase their...
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Preserving Memory, Healing Trauma
storying as social action What’s your Katrina story?” We were asked this question on the second day of our year-long commitment to social justice through AVODAH: the Jewish Service Corps in New...
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The Jewish Service Mecca
new orleans and the jewish community Perhaps we can think of New Orleans as a modern-day pilgrimage site. Since Hurricane Katrina, the city has become a primary service-learning destination for...
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The Thing We Carried
transporting tradition Issue 15Ceremony in Hungary. Courtesy of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). Sadly, the contents of our bags do not tell many stories from 10 months of...
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Jews of Siberia
in the jewish autonomous region Issue 15Photo provided by Robert Weinberg. The Soviet Union was a terrible place to be a Jew, and Siberia was terrible place to be no matter what your background was....
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Camps for Volunteerism
reshaping the future Issue 15At camp this summer. Photo by Olga Savchuk. While having tea with my groupmate Olga Savchuk at Paideia (The European institute of Jewish Studies in Sweden), we started...
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Ethiopian Jewry
challenges and journeys Online OnlyA Beta Israel synagogue in the Ethiopian village of Woloka How did people decide to pack up everything they own, their families, their entire lives, and walk a...
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The New Havana Club
Jewish Life Returns to Cuba At the eve of the revolution, 15,000 Jews lived in Cuba—including Eastern European Jews, commonly nicknamed Polacos (Poles), and Sephardi Jews who had fled the Ottoman...
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Super-Shtetl in the South
Mexico City Is Rich with Life Today, 90 percent of one of the world’s wealthiest Jewish communities lives in a mountainous area: the Beverly Hills of Mexico City. Ironically referred to by many young...
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Blazing Saddles
Jewish Life in Argentina A long time ago, in a far away land, there lived a Jewish gaucho in a settlement called Moisesville. This first Jewish colony in Argentina was comprised of Jewish cowboys....
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