IT IS COMMON knowledge that actors with Jewish sounding surnames were encouraged to change their names to more “non- Jewish” names. Recently, a U-tube...
WITH LIMITED KOSHER restaurants in Orange County, keeping kosher has always been a home-based tradition. Families keeping kosher become accustomed to the unique requirement...
TRANS RABBIS AND other trans-identified Jewish scholars, as well as allies, are filling in the blanks of the Torah narrative. Breathing a new experience...
LONG BEFORE Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” told the graphic story of revenge against the Nazis, it was the subject of Yiddish songs detailing the...
H. (YOSSI) CHAJES (Ph.D., Yale University, 1999), the Orange County Jewish Community Scholar Program’s 17th Annual One Month Scholar, is Associate Professor in the...
