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Women of the Wall hold calmest service in months with little police protection

Scores of women gathered for a Women of the Wall service at the Western Wall with little police protection and minimal disruption from protesters.

The Righteous Gentile Who Wasn’t One

It’s always sad when your hero gets knocked off his pedestal. But it’s shocking when that hero turns out to have a been an enthusiastic Nazi who got falsely credited with saving 5000 Jews. That supposed hero, Giovanni Palatucci, was an Italian police officer sent to Dachau, where he eventually died, on charges of embezzlement and […]

With school supplies drive, Daniel Sobajian shows Students Do

Four years since he launched Students Do as an eighth-grader, Daniel Sobajian says the organization has collected $25,000 in school supplies and distributed them to 2,500 Los Angeles schoolchildren.

A Biblical Family Tree

At 80, Holocaust survivor Ivan Gabor finally revels in his bar mitzvah

Hobby Lobby called out for absence of Hanukkah goods, alleged slur

For an infertile woman, grandma makes the ultimate gift

J.D. Salinger’s Jewish Roots

Agudath Israel condemns Chovevei Torah for multidenominational roundtable

Shrugging at censure, Chovevei’s Asher Lopatin articulates vision for ‘open Orthodoxy’

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