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Teaneck synagogue Covid-19

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Rabbis are struggling to protect Jews’ physical and spiritual health. They deserve support, not shame.

Our clergy know that preserving life is the paramount value of the Torah.

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Birnbaum High Holiday Prayer Book

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Why a High Holidays prayer book is still going strong after 70 years

Habit and economics explain the unlikely longevity of the Birnbaum machzor.

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I left my Hasidic community. ‘Schitt’s Creek’ helped me put things in perspective.

I didn’t need to justify myself to anyone. I didn’t need to win anything. I didn’t need to prove that I wasn’t a joke.

In our season of reckoning, what to remember when abuse stories break in Jewish communities

3 days of rioting shattered Crown Heights. 30 years of peacemaking helped put it back together.

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When I faced antisemitism on campus in 1985, I felt alone. I’m glad today’s college students have each other.

Your nanny makes you an employer. The Torah makes you responsible for their well-being.

I feel empowered as an Asian-American Jew — but it sure took a while to get there

Matisyahu Jewish singer

I used to judge ex-Orthodox Jews. Then I started listening to them.

The Eternal Jew Nazi antisemitic film

‘My Unorthodox Life’ joins a long history of depicting, and distorting, Orthodox Jews on stage and screen

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