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The hora, the hora! How Jewish wedding music got that way

Musicologist Uri Schreter shows how postwar trends played out on the dance floor.

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The Jewish calendar reminds us where we’ve been — and what’s next

Like the fruit of a tree, the revelations of Shavuot are meant to be nourishing, sweet and shared.

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The Sassoons are having a moment. Here’s why that matters.

The author of a book about the famed Baghdadi merchants says their story raises awareness of the diversity of Jewish experience.

Ram Dass

Overdue or overdone? Two scholars hope to secure the legacy of ‘Jewish Renewal’

When a breast cancer diagnosis knocked me down, a network of Jewish women lifted me up

As a child of survivors, I see my parents in every Ethiopian immigrant to Israel

A manufactured ‘mainstream’ wants the White House to define antisemitism on its own flawed terms

The White House intends to fight antisemitism. That starts with a sensible definition.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin wants Jews to own up to the corrosive power of shame

As a rabbi in a small town, I understand the Jewish class divide — and how to close it

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