Jewish traditions to mark a marriage often involve ceremonies and celebrations before the big day, whether it’s a ritual bath or even a fiance’s conversion to Judaism.
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Most ideas about Jewish culture in the United States come from Ashkenazi traditions, but there’s a vast landscape of Jewish cultures around the world – and represented in the US.
Assimilation no doubt played a role in making Hanukkah the commercialized holiday it is today. But other factors shaped the modern festival, too, a scholar of Jewish studies and gender explains.
The diversity of Israel’s Jewish population has been a source of tensions, but also strength, over the decades.
Advanced artificial intelligence is new, but a similar idea has been around for hundreds of years: the power of a just-right sequence of numbers, letters or elements to animate matter.
Like many Jewish practices, the harvest festival of Sukkot largely takes place at home − meaning families can incorporate many meaningful traditions.
The Passover Seder has tradition and remembrance at its core, but has also evolved throughout the centuries in Jewish communities around the world.
Tu BiShvat has religious roots, but early Zionists embraced the day in new, more secular ways.
An expert in the representation of the Holocaust on film explains the responsibility of the reader to educate themselves beyond the depth of a single work of fiction.
You’ll likely spot a hanukkiah, which has become a shortcut to identify Jewishness.
Multicultural Jewish families and Jews of color are innovating food-centered holidays to bring their whole selves to the table.
Many religions value forgiveness, but the details of their teachings differ. A psychologist of religion explains how Christian and Jewish attitudes compare.
Perhaps the most famous document of its type, Anne Frank’s diary is a version of the Holocaust without the actual horrors.
The British Jewish community celebrate Hanukah in a way that borrows traditions from the US as well as Israel.
Authorities have closed schools in some ultra-Orthodox areas of New York. The reasons for apparent noncompliance with public health guidelines are complicated, explains a cultural anthropologist.
The former justice received a Jewish funeral at the Supreme Court. But in other ways, Ginsburg’s burial is breaking with traditional Jewish death rituals.
To afford sufficient protection to marginalised people in society - such as women in minority religious communities - the state must recognise and regulate religious marriages in a nuanced way.
Giving small gifts to children has become common around the world, though nowhere has Hanukkah reached the level of commercialisation that it has in the US.
Dirty Dancing’s dance sequences are stand-alone properties, famous in their own right. But when they’re considered in isolation, the film’s messy class, race and gender politics are sidelined.
Israel’s increasingly conservative policies on social and religious issues appears to be playing a role.
Principales colaboradores
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Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies & Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Professor, Department of Global Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Teaching Professor of English, Florida International University
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Professor of Legal Pluralism, Religious Family Laws, and Human Rights, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor of Israel Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Associate Professor, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University
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Department Chair of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Otis College of Art and Design
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Director of the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, University of Arizona
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University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
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Lecturer in Media, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway University of London
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Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University
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Lecturer in Screen Media, University of the Sunshine Coast
