Author - Lisa Klug

What do a rapper, a dancer, a comedian and a handful of Sefardic, Ashkenazi and Hasidic performers have in common? They’re all sharing the stage this Sunday in a show that celebrates Jewish...

A few years ago, at a Yom Kippur service in New York, I met Neshama Carlebach through a mutual friend. It was a few more years until we met again at a Yom Kippur break-the-fast in Jerusalem at our...

These heroes don’t wear tights or capes. They hardly need leotards to reveal how super they really are. If you somehow haven’t yet heard, Rabbi Yonah Bookstein is a Jewish Community Hero...

You know traditional Judaism has entered a new milieu when tzniut ends up on TLC. Mayim Bialik starred in NBC’s “Blossom” from 1990 to 1994. More recently, she appeared on...

Back at U. Madison’s Conney Conference while doing the Cool Jew thang, I met classically trained dancer Adam McKinney, an African American, Native American, Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jew. Reared...

Aliza Hausman is a Latina Orthodox Jewish convert, freelance writer, blogger and educator, who blogs daily at Memoirs of a Jewminicana. She recently shared some thoughts on race and Gates at...