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‘There’s no one right way to kohenet’: The Hebrew priestess movement aims to center women’s voices

Jewish priestesses now serve in a variety of spiritual roles, from synagogue clergy, prison chaplains and hospice counselors to herbalists, midwives and storytellers.

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The Jewish angles to the GameStop stock saga, explained

Multiple prominent Jewish money managers are involved, and online anti-Semites have noticed.

Bernie Sanders mitten merchandise raises $1.8 million for Vermont charities

Sanders’ website sold a variety of merchandise with his now iconic inauguration day image on it.

Times Square’s new ‘Margaritaville Resort’ to include a first-floor synagogue

The shocking, American and Jewish moment Gene Scheer heard President Biden recite his ‘American Anthem’

Jonathan Sacks’ final book, dozens of others win 2020 National Jewish Book Awards

On TikTok, Tobin Mitnick is famous as ‘a Jew who loves trees’

Amar’e Stoudemire, now a Brooklyn Nets coach, doesn’t work on Shabbat

At 87, activist rabbi Arthur Waskow is still protesting — and still getting arrested

In this exclusive ‘Finding Your Roots’ clip, journalist Nina Totenberg learns of a family member’s daring Holocaust escape

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