Join TCC members Rebecca Faulkner, Development Director at On This Spot NYC: Stories of Pioneering Women Artists; art collector Alice Kaplan; and visual artist Sylvia Schwartz for a discussion on…
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Elsa Sjunneson is a professor, historian, media critic, author and editor. She is also Deafblind. Her first book, “Being Seen: One Deafblind Women’s Fight To End Ableism“, won the Washington…
Why would Secular Humanistic Jews even want to know Talmud, much less study it? What can we get out of writings by esteemed rabbis in history? Do their writings help…
Many of us who grew up in religious homes have a story about when we stopped buying the proverbial lokshen (traditional religious conventions) being sold to us by traditional Judaism….
What were the experiences unique to women during the Holocaust? What were the different skills, knowledge and expertise that enabled some Jewish women to survive? Were there differences in the nature…
It’s nearly impossible to think about American comedy without thinking about the many Jews who have contributed to it. Similarly, it’s hard to conceive of secular Jewish American culture without…
HIAS, the world’s oldest refugee agency, was incorporated in 1903 as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Reflecting Jewish ethics, it found ways to help fellow Jews in a hostile world….
How old are you? Okay, but how old do you feel? Is there another age you associate with yourself in your mind? What do you like about being your age?…
Throughout American history, numerous agnostic and atheist “hidden figures” within the African American community such as Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, James Baldwin, Zora Neal Hurston and Lorraine Hansberry have…
If you attended a typical American Jewish wedding in the 1950s, you might have noticed some new “rituals,” such as a photographer buzzing around the rabbi, a floral wedding canopy,…