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AI, pluralism and Israel: What North American rabbis spoke about in their High Holiday sermons

Antisemitism, climate change and book bans also got attention in synagogues this Rosh Hashanah.

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The buzzy novel ‘Whalefall’ offers a modern spin on the ancient Book of Jonah

Llike the story read on Yom Kippur, the novel is about lessons learned in the belly of a great fish, writes a scholar at Yeshiva University.

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This High Holiday pastry connects me to the relatives I loved and the ones I lost

In its glistening, fragrant glory, fluden is a key to the door of memory, writes JTA’s Germany correspondent.

Why is the Ukraine war more Jewish than the Iranian uprising? A year after Mahsa Amini’s death, that should change.

Mayim Bialik’s guide to embracing the new Jewish year

Change is hard and threatening. That’s why we need Rosh Hashanah.

Unetaneh Tokef, the High Holidays’ roll call of ruin, is heartbreakingly real for the Ukrainian Jews I’ve gotten to know

How ‘This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared’ became a High Holidays classic

How a religious revival fed the demise of the Midtown kosher deli

Israeli Hebrew didn’t kill Yiddish. As a new exhibit in NYC shows, it gave it a new nest to live in.

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