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I thought anti-Semitism was a problem of the past. Then I became Jewish.

It wasn’t until I started converting to Judaism that I realized that anti-Semitism is very much alive and well — and it’s only getting worse, writes Kylie Ora Lobell

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COVID-19 hit my Orthodox Israeli town early and hard. Coming together helped us stop the spread.

In my home community of Kiryat Yearim, a small haredi Orthodox town 15 minutes outside of Jerusalem, we take COVID-19 seriously, writes Carol Ungar.

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City life can bring people together, but the tensions in Orthodox Brooklyn are pulling us apart

Just as no one is incapable of reaching the highest, most exalted states of human existence, we can all descend into total disarray, Hannah Lebovits writes.