Culture

In Seattle, a Jewish school turned mosque is bringing Jews and Muslims together

Community figures want to restore and rejuvenate a building that spent its first decades as a Jewish school, then became a pioneering mosque.

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I couldn’t go back to school. So I started a farm to connect with my Jewish values.

Twin sisters, filled with their father’s stories of growing up on a farm, are turning his 40-year-old vision of creating a perennial farm into reality.

Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue selects Daniel Libeskind as lead architect for major renovation campaign

Libeskind’s previous projects include the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, Canada.

This Hungarian coffee cake is even better than babka

In precedent-setting case, German city to return painting to heirs of Jewish businessman who was once in concentration camp

Here are the first 10 Jewish documentaries funded through Jewish Story Partners

This Brazilian musician is shining a light on the intersection of sexuality and Judaism

Israelis have turned Lag b’Omer into a nationwide party. Here’s how they celebrate.

Elie Wiesel to be the first Jew honored with a bust in the National Cathedral in Washington

Mandy Patinkin breaks down in tears when he learns that he lost family in the Holocaust on ‘Finding Your Roots’

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