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Inspired by the pandemic, Jewish musicians are rolling out a year’s worth of spiritual ‘healing songs’

“We’re kind of hard-wired to digest grief and turn it into art or song,” said Elana Brody, a Jewish singer-songwriter.

Hans Achterhuis in Amsterdam on August 27, 2017. (Wikimedia Commmons)

Dutch national laureate philosopher calls Diaspora a ‘blessing’ because it prevented Jews from having power

“And one sees how it can go wrong if that power does exist, in the State of Israel,” Hans Achterhuis said in an interview published on Israel’s national Holocaust memorial day.

Marianne Steiner, 101, stylish Holocaust survivor who supported research on German Jewry

Steiner and her late husband were longtime supporters of the Leo Baeck Institute, which houses family papers going back to prewar Germany.

Global

Prince Philip, who opposed Nazis and was first British royal to visit Israel, dies at 99

United States

Teshuvah for Meyers Leonard: Miami’s Jewish community embraces NBA player after he apologizes for anti-Semitic slur

The son of JTA's Europe correspondent pictures here when he was nearing his 2nd birthday, examines a memorial cobblestone for murdered Dutch Jews in Heerlen, the Netherlands on July 29, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

First Person

Growing up in Anne Frank’s shadow, my kids have known about the Holocaust since before they could speak

United States

A year into the pandemic, Conservative Jews consider whether to make Zoom prayer permanent

United States

Editor of Orthodox newspaper the Jewish Press was inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6 breach

Politics

These names are being talked about to be the US anti-Semitism monitor

Food

The secret not-so-Jewish history of gefilte fish

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