Rabbi Harold Loss leads the 12,000 members of Temple Israel, a Reform congregation in Bloomfield, Mich.

Read a June 2, 2006, National Public Radio article about a surge in immigrant day workers helping with the demolition and rebuilding work in New Orleans. These immigrants – undocumented or contract workers – often lack decent housing and food.

Man of Steel is a 2013 motion picture starring Henry Cavill as Superman. This reboot of the Superman series coincided with the Superman comic’s 75th anniversary.

Judith Katz is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Among her areas of expertise is representation of Jews in the arts and popular culture.

The Sci Fi Channel’s reality show Who Wants to Be a Superhero? ran from 2006-2007. The show featured average folks who bring their own costume and character and compete to win a prize as a true superhero. As the promotional materials said, “No one will be asked to perform feats of impossible strength; our superheroes will be […]

May 2, 2013, The Daily Beast article about the multi-faceted nature of Americans’ support for Israel, namely Jewish groups and right-wing evangelical groups.

The NBC drama Heroes ran from 2006 to 2010. The program recounts the stories of regular people around the world who discover that they have superpowers and how this affects their lives and the lives of those around them.

Rachel Baum is deputy director of the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she also teaches courses on the Holocaust, contemporary American Jewish identity and Jewish feminism. Additionally, she co-directs the Stephen Weinstein Holocaust Symposium, an international gathering of Holocaust scholars.

Read a June 26, 2006, story from WLOX television about how First Baptist Church of Pass Christian, Miss., is managing to hold Vacation Bible School this summer in a trailer with help from a Baptist church in Florida.