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How Pixar’s ‘Soul’ borrows from an ancient Jewish idea

A midrash about the body-soul connection resonates while viewing the latest animated film to deal with big metaphysical issues, writes Rabbi Benjamin Resnick.

Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin, pioneer of women’s leadership in Orthodoxy, dies

“In many ways he anticipated and pioneered decades of halachic discussion,” said one woman who learned from him.

10 heartwarming Jewish stories from 2020, a year to otherwise forget

From a historic march to the vaccine to an Israeli phenom athlete, these are some of the stories that provided some light in a dark year.

‘Cleopatra was Macedonian’: Gal Gadot responds to critics who say she shouldn’t play the Egyptian queen

The latest Christmas song written by a Jewish musician: Adam Weiner’s ‘Christmas Makes Me Cry’

Amar’e Stoudemire shares his Jewish journey, from young scholar to aspiring ‘prophet’

This 118-year-old Jewish bakery in India is a hit on Christmas

Israeli teen Deni Avdija is set to make his NBA debut. His excited and sleepy nation will be watching.

How NY sanitation workers helped one Jew go dumpster diving for his lost tefillin

Orthodox Jewish leaders are telling their followers to vaccinate for COVID-19. Will they listen?

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