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Oprah Winfrey is shown here speaking at the Golden Globes ceremony in 2018. (Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images, via JTA)
Winfrey sparked the speculation with a speech at the Golden Globes in which she praised women who have come forward with stories of sexual abuse, declared that the “time is up” for abusive men and promised girls that “a new day is on the horizon.”
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Ivanka Trump with her father, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, at a new Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., Oct. 26, 2016. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” written by Michael Wolff and excerpted in New York Magazine, portrays Javanka as a power couple struggling to gain influence in a chaotic administration while fighting Steve Bannon along the way.
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Elhanan Miller, a journalist and rabbinical student who speaks fluent Arabic, sees his videos as a way to bridge a religious divide. (Bruria Hammer)
Elhanan Miller’s new project, “People of the Book,” is a series of short animated videos that explain Jewish faith and ritual in Arabic and compare them to similar Muslim practices.
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Chef Rachael Ray on stage at the Food Network & Cooking Channel New York City Wine & Food Festival in New York City, Oct. 15, 2016. (Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images for NYCWFF)
Twitter users noted that the foods’ names are all Arabic and pounced on Ray for labeling them Israeli, rather than Arab or Palestinian.
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Rabbi Rick Jacobs, center, and other progressive Jews clashing with security guards in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Nov. 16, 2017. (Noam Rivkin Fenton)
This hasn’t been a good year for Israel and American Jews.
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Sen. Al Franken at a Capitol Hill committee hearing on hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico, Nov. 14, 2017. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
“There’s a loss of his voice, but the resignation is an expression that no one is above that accountability,” said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism.
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Members of the Reform movement and Hebrew Union College reading from the Torah at the public square in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Nov. 16, 2017. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)
Leading up to the movement’s biennial conference next week in Boston, Reform rabbis and leaders sounded upset but unsurprised by the clashes on Nov. 16 at the Western Wall.
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Darya Henig Shaked is the founder of WeAct, an organization that brings Israeli female entrepreneurs on networking missions to Silicon Valley. (Courtesy of Shaked)
Darya Henig Shaked is one of several Israeli women — and men — working to advance other Israeli women in the notoriously male world of tech.
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Yuval Machlin, Kfir Eyal, Daniel Shaked and Alon Matas (left to right) in front of Plug n’ Play, a Silicon Valley incubator in SIlicon Valley where they all work. All have been in California for different lengths of time, but all talk about returning to Israel someday. (Ben Sales)
The past five years, a network of Israeli-focused organizations has emerged in the Bay Area.
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Yair Pomburg raps during a performance of the Shalva Band at North Shore Hebrew Academy on Long Island. (Photo by Ben Sales)
What makes the Jerusalem-based Shalva Band unique is that its members are people with disabilities.
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The Barna group conducted a study involving 599 Jews born from 1984 to 1999. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The survey, which was published this week, is mostly composed of the standard questions: how often do you pray, how do you feel about Israel, do you date non-Jews and the like. Much of it is a millennial-focused version of the Pew Research Center’s 2013 study of American Jews.
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