"Coming of Age in the Sephardi Diaspora" explores the scarcity of Sephardi coming-of-age stories compared to Ashkenazi literature and highlights some notable works in the genre.

Judah Philip Benjamin was the first American Jew to serve in a president's cabinet.

The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is a popular Israeli TV series based on a bestselling novel, but it has been criticized for being melodramatic, culturally inappropriate, and politically biased.