NYJW Travel

2015 was a rough year for the world. From a travel perspective, it was a year when the world became smaller — when people from very different places, culturally and geographically, became far more aware of each other’s circumstances and motivations. The year’s biggest travel story was about migration, not leisure travel. So many headlines […]

If you thought of Chanukah as a holiday that unites Jews everywhere, Rabbi Marvin Tokayer has a message: Think again. The Jews of India trace their lineage on the subcontinent back 2,200 years, “so they left before the Chanukah story,” Rabbi Tokayer told me by phone from his home on Long Island. So until recently, […]