Chicago Jewish native Matthew Reitman learned a song–by Rabbi Larry Milder–with these lyrics in Hebrew school. Now that he is an adult, the words ring truer than ever for Reitman, and it’s all because ...

We’ve all played the “Jewish geography” game — you know, questioning someone we’ve only just met in order to discover common Jewish connections, friends or even family. In doing so, we are mapping out ...

The idea of Jewish topography and the spaces and places – physical and metaphysical – in which Jews live, dream and interact forms the basis of a fascinating new book, “Jewish Topographies: Visions of ...

This is the story of how a game taught a young, Black Jewish girl that she didn’t belong. The game is Jewish Geography. The young girl is me. Urban Dictionary defines the diasporic pastime of “Jewish ...

In the late 19th century, my grandfather Jacob and his brothers left their Russian shtetl to seek a new life in South Africa. The rigors of pioneer life were not to Jacob’s liking; he returned to ...

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On vacation, our eyes come alive with new signs of Jewish life in the streets, shops, even in the faces and speech patterns of fellow travelers, Edmon J. Rodman writes. LOS ANGELES (JTA) — As the end ...

Maggie Wiebe/Daily. Buy this photo. A lot of my freshman year Welcome Week is now something of a blur in my memory because of my constant, utter confusion around where I was going and what I was doing ...

תָּנוּ רַבָּנַן: לְעוֹלָם יָדוּר אָדָם בְּאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל אֲפִילּוּ בְּעִיר שֶׁרוּבָּהּ גּוֹיִם, וְאַל יָדוּר בְּחוּצָה לָאָרֶץ ...

Chances are — if you’re from Long Island, Westchester or a few towns in Jersey — you, like many, are your own little “Christopher Columbus” in regards to the map of Jewish geography. Whether you’re ...

Until I started USC and made friends outside of the Modern-Orthodox bubble, it never occurred to me how crazy the concept of “Jewish geography” is. The idea that I can fly to another city or state and ...