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Gal Garber and Mathilde Lair preparing jachnun in their apartment in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Nov. 20, 2020. (Mathilde Lair)

How homemade jachnun is giving a lifeline to European Jews in a second COVID wave

The takeout-friendly Yemenite bread is helping entrepreneurial home chefs weather the financial crisis on a continent hungry for exotic vegetarian dishes.

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Effi Eitam

750 Jewish and Holocaust scholars sign petition protesting far-right politician tapped to lead Yad Vashem

Effi Eitam is unfit for the post, the petition says, because his “hateful rhetoric towards Israeli Arabs and Palestinians stands in opposition to the stated mission of Yad Vashem.”

Meet Rick Doblin, the Jewish psychedelics advocate working to turn a club drug into legal medicine

Doblin said his first LSD trip was the rite of passage he had hoped his bar mitzvah would be.

Walter Mosley

Black Jewish novelist Walter Mosley honored with National Book Foundation’s lifetime achievement award

Jewish day schools and yeshivas remain open as NYC public schools close

Their annual gathering impossible, Chabad rabbis convene on Zoom — for days and days

A Jewish cohousing movement is on the rise — but challenges beyond COVID remain

Members of the Wagabunda Scouts troop haul a fallen tree out of the the Jewish cemetery of Nowe Miasto, Poland on Nov. 11, 2020. (Julia Bandurska)

This non-Jewish leader is working to clean up Poland’s forgotten Jewish cemeteries

‘It’s knocking on everyone’s doors’: Chicago’s Jewish community is battered by second wave of coronavirus

Theo Epstein

Theo Epstein stepping down as Chicago Cubs president after winning World Series there in ’16

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