Season 3 opens with a long awaited introduction to the American chapter of the Jewish Story. This first segment traces the back story of the three waves of Jewish immigration to American and explores...
Israel Gets a ShoutOut in China’s Number 1 Film –...
Wandering Earth, China’s Lunar New Year 2019 Box Office sci-fi hit, with over $600 million in ticket sales in the past two weeks, contains a tiny “easter egg” near the end of the...
JNF Screws Japanese Donors, Fox Rejects Anti-Nazi Ad, Temple...
First … Happy Saint Valentine’s Day, the non-Jewish world’s Tu B’Av. Second, Check out these cute Jewish cards from KESHET Third, Mazal Tov (Muscle Tough) to celebrity Andy...
TJS 3 Prologue: The questions that drive the Jewish Story after...
It is time to get a new season started. This prologue introduces the idea that every story has a topography on which it unfolds. In particular, it is a framing of the season ahead questions in three...
Frigid Toronto Funeral Grows from 2 to 200, Ehud Barak’s...
It was colder than -27 Celsius (-6F) in Toronto last week, when Eddie Ford was laid to rest in a Jewish cemetery. When Eddie was six, he was hidden by a Christian family in Budapest and saved from...
My problem with Jewish “Chinese Auctions”
Every few months, for years, I receive a promotional mailing from an Orthodox Jewish group hosting a “Chinese Auction.” And for years, I have responded to some of them that the term...
TJS Interlude: 3 things which divide the stories of American and...
Everybody is talking about the relationship between American and Israeli Jewry – is the romance over? are we headed for a breakup? This relationship will be central to the Jewish Story in...
Double Chai Sundance 2019: What’s Jew-ish at the Fest
The 36th Annual Sundance 2019 started in Park City, Utah, today with founder Robert Redford standing before attendees and… walking off the stage. After over three decades of kicking off the...
TJS2 Epilogue: The re-emergence of Jewish political theology and...
What better way to wrap up season two than to talk about the messiah? Here is an exploration of the power of the messianic idea and its centrality to Jewish thought. It also includes the introduction...
Can AeroMexico’s DNA Discount Work for EL AL?
There is a viral video online this week from a early 2018 Aeromexico advertisement campaign that tells the story of the air carrier’s discount program for people of Mexican heritage. (See...