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Eating Jewishly Recipe: Asian Big Bowl

Eating Jewishly Recipe: Asian Big Bowl

ArtScroll/November 2022 / Photographed by Esti Waldman By Susie Fishbein from Kosher by Design Short on Time I always had leftover chicken soup from Shabbos that no one would eat at any other time. By adding in fresh vegetables and the fun of ramen noodles, I suddenly...

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Now Is the Time to Sound the Alarm

Now Is the Time to Sound the Alarm

By Jackie Nirenberg, Regional Director, ADL Austin  The observance of Holocaust Remembrance Week held in January was an opportunity to reflect upon how the lessons learned from that terrible time which might help identify and stop such a catastrophe from happening...

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Rocking the Kab-Shab with Dave Kaplan

Rocking the Kab-Shab with Dave Kaplan

AJA students locking arms and swaying to Shalom Aleichem in the Worub Rock Garden. Courtesy: Austin Jewish Academy By: Melissa Rabeaux-Rosen  Every Friday at 8:00 a.m., Austin Jewish Academy (AJA) starts its day with Kabbalat Shabbat, complete with singing and Shabbat...

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JAMen Announces Final Two Season 6 Programs 

JAMen Announces Final Two Season 6 Programs 

Seth Halpern and Brett Hurt in conversation at JAMen on January 25, 2023. Credit: Alachua Haskins  By Jay Rubin The Jewish Austin Men (JAMen) Dinner and Speakers Forum moves into the home stretch with the final two outstanding Season 6 programs on tap in March and...

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Mayim Bialik on Being Jewish in Hollywood

Mayim Bialik on Being Jewish in Hollywood

Photo Courtesy of American Jewish University By Allison Teegardin   Since American Jewish University (AJU) launched Maven in March 2020, they have hosted over 350 guests, including former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jewish actor Julia Garner,...

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