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• Piecing together Jewish pasts in Poland

  July 14, 2009 12:23am

  A Jewish awakening in Poland has many Poles discovering their Jewish roots and many Diaspora Jews exploring their Polish Jewish heritage.

• Workshop on welcoming GLBT Jews

  May 20, 2008 9:00am

  An advocacy group for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Jews runs a three-day workshop on providing community educators with the tools to provide a more welcoming atmosphere.

• Going the route on Passover

  April 22, 2008 9:00am

  For a holiday celebrated by more Jews than any other for its universal theme of freedom and ease of celebrating at home, liberation for many comes only when Passover has passed over because of the food restrictions.

• Talking elections at policy conference

  February 26, 2008 10:00am

  With the approach of the pivotal March 4 primaries, many of the roughly 400 people attending the JCPA conference, a bastion of liberal Democrats even among Jews, were grappling with the political endgame.

• Englander’s disappearing act

  July 2, 2007 9:00am

  In his highly anticipated debut novel, “The Ministry of Special Cases,” Nathan Englander uses Jewish characters in Argentina to explore the agony of searching for a missing person.

• Southerner learns in land of Limmud

  January 21, 2007 10:00am

  Limmud NY brought community delegations from across the country to observe the program with an eye toward transporting the concept to their home communities. One Atlantan thinks it will go over big in Dixie.

• For JDaters, Caribbean’s a sea of love

  January 16, 2007 10:00am

  A Caribbean vacation at Club Med provided an idyllic setting for a JDate getaway, as the online Jewish dating service increasingly ventures into offline, face-to-face events.

• Memphis gets modern Orthodox school

  September 13, 2006 9:00am

  Can a prestigious, Orthodox prep school from Manhattan take root in Memphis? The founder of the new Memphis Jewish high school is betting it can.

• Israel critic defeated in Georgia

  August 10, 2006 9:00am

  Vehemently anti-Israel Rep. Cynthia McKinney lost the race to retain her congressional seat in Georgia, but this time she can’t blame the Jews.

• Atlanta community surges

  July 2, 2006 9:00am

  Atlanta’s Jewish community, an unusual hybrid of natives and newcomers, has soared in the past decade.