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Ideas

I’m a rabbi who learned the hard way that policing how Jews mourn never ends well

The information I learned in rabbinical school certainly did not give me the tools to counsel families about death and dying.

How to host a socially distanced break-fast this Yom Kippur

Think individual tables, family lox platters and single-shot servings of matzoh ball soup.

Heba Nabil Iskandarani. (Courtesy of Iskandarani)

Palestinian refugee receives Spanish citizenship after discovering Jewish Sephardic roots

Seeking “a country to fall” back on, Heba Nabil Iskandarani discovered that the mother of her Jaffa-born paternal grandfather was likely a Jewish woman from the Tunisian island of Djerba.

New York

Health Dept. Forces Yeshivas in Queens, Brooklyn to Close Due to Covid-19

New York

A Tikkun for Generations Past: Strength and hope for the future

United States

SF State U event with Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled, briefly hosted on YouTube, is taken down

Food

How to host a socially distanced break-fast this Yom Kippur

Ideas

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a dying wish about when she’d be replaced. Jewish tradition can guide our response.

Global

A year after the Halle terror attack, Jews who were there are still looking for answers

New York

A Poem by Moses Celebrates Life’s Turns of Fate

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