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High Holiday prayers not working for you? Try remixing metaphors.

Rabbi Toba Spitzer wants you to explore the poetry of the prayerbook, and ask what it means if God is a king, a fire or even a GPS.

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The world’s attention may be flagging, but Ukraine’s Jews still need our help

Needs are spiking among the tens of thousands of Jews who aren’t going anywhere, writes the head of the JDC.

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Can the state tell yeshivas what they can teach? Here’s what the courts may decide.

Calls for secular education at Hasidic schools are likely to withstand constitutional challenge — within limits, writes the chair in law and religion at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law.

For the sin we have sinned by making people feel unwelcome at synagogues

Queen Elizabeth mattered. Civil religion explains why.

We investigated New York City’s Hasidic yeshivas in 2015. The real story now is about inaction.

Ken Burns’ Holocaust documentary may be hard on America, but not hard enough

I studied how New York City’s Hasidic yeshivas gained legitimacy. Here’s what I learned.

A new study explains why Starbucks can’t spell your Jewish name

I build relationships between Muslims and Jews. Here’s why you should watch ‘Mo’ on Netflix.

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