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Articles by My Jewish Learning
The Hollywood Blacklist and the Whitewashing of American Culture
Ellie Gettinger, JTS director of Digital Learning and curator of the museum exhibit, “Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare,” will explore ...
Mechitza: Art and Women’s Resistance During the Holocaust
One aspect of Zuzanna Hertzberg’s practice is to recover the herstories of Jewish activism since the early 20th century. For ...
Jews in the Armed Forces
Presenters: Rabbi Yosef Zarnighian, Air Force Chaplain; Colonel Ret. Sherwood (Woody) Goldberg, Esq. Hear from Rabbi Yosef Zarnighian of Mikveh ...
Hanukkah for Heretics
This event will go over the history of Hanukkah – are the Maccabees really the “good guys”? Join Secular Synagogue ...
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein’s three-part, six-hour documentary series, The U.S. and The Holocaust, examines how the American ...
Chanukah Workshop
Join Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald, NJOP’s Founder and Director, for a pre-Chanukah Workshop on Zoom. You will learn the deeper ...
The Jewish American Experience in the Civil War
This hybrid event will feature the launch of a new book, Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army, ...
“Fear and Other Stories,” with translator Anita Norich
“Fear and Other Stories,” translated by Anita Norich, from Yiddish to English of the collected stories of Chana Blankshteyn (~1860–1939), ...
Hanukkah: The Festival of Cheese with Vered Guttman
Potato latkes aren’t the only tradition on Hanukkah, there’s actually another-cheese! Join Israeli chef and food writer Vered Guttman to ...
Hanukkah: The Festival of Cheese with Vered Guttman
Potato latkes aren’t the only tradition on Hanukkah, there’s actually another-cheese! Join Israeli chef and food writer Vered Guttman to ...