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Bahrain jewish wedding

First Jewish wedding held in Bahrain in 52 years

Leaders of the community hailed the wedding as a sign of the community’s resurgence and expressed hope that more young people would raise families there.

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A picture shows the abandoned Dar Bishi synagogue in the Libyan capital Tripoli on September 28, 2011. (Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images)

Libya’s Jewish graveyards were destroyed. They are being rebuilt online.

David Gerbi for years has tried to salvage what’s left of his community’s graveyards in Tripoli and Benghazi. Now that they’re destroyed, he plans to rebuild them online.

Joshua Angrist nobel economics

Israeli-American Joshua Angrist shares Nobel Prize in economics

Angrist then taught at Hebrew University from 1991 to 1996.

Writing Hebrew letters creatively is a Jewish tradition. This rabbi sees sacredness in doodles, too.

Jews, drugs and rock ’n’ roll: The Jewish stories behind a heavy metal cult classic film

A middle-aged couple on a bus in Israel in a movie still.

In ‘Golden Voices,’ Russian movie dubbers reinvent themselves in Israel, to hilarious effect

These Jews want to normalize not circumcising — and they want synagogues to help

Eran Kolirin let it be morning Ophir awards

A story about Palestinians won Israel’s highest film honor. Its stars skipped the award show in protest.

For Orthodox Jews and Israelis, WhatsApp outage highlighted basic community infrastructure — and its vulnerability

Mark Oppenheimer

Mark Oppenheimer’s new book on the Tree of Life shooting is an ode to an iconic Jewish neighborhood

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