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"While I may not fit others’ ideas of a Jewish teen born to Jewish parents," writes a JTA Teen Fellow, "I will not let their ...
The threat of the Nazis may be gone, but their ideology to wipe out the Jewish people persists. This time, however, we can protect ourselves.The post Reminding humanity of its ...
Holding each other tight, dancing together, singing “Country Roads, Take Me Home,” filling ... hold fast to halacha — Jewish law — while caring more for how people feel than how things ...
Passover, and the story contained within the Haggadah, is our people's oscillating family narrative that helps us realize nothing is impossible' ...
I hosted my first seder last year (don’t be impressed, I catered it) and about an hour before everyone arrived I realized I ...
Gad Fartouk, 93, prays for 59 hostages in Gaza before lighting a torch at Israel’s Holocaust memorial ceremony marking 80 ...
It has been alleged that pro-Palestinian activists demonstrated past various synagogues during a time when Jewish community members were marking Shabbat ... families walked home from synagogue ...
With the “religion of preventing another Holocaust” deemed a failure, some people, particularly those Israelis most disconnected from Jewish ... And singing at the Shabbat and Seder table ...
Even the week itself teaches us: six days of labor and struggle, crowned by the peace and light of Shabbat. Jewish time is built ... that both are sacred. To sing even when your voice cracks.
Mayfield Heights resident Terri Kleinman celebrated her 80th birthday in a way she never could have imagined – by fulfilling ...
Shlissel challah is a special loaf baked the first sabbath after Passover. We trace the modern route by which the bread has ...